Title:
Stranger in the Shogun's city : a Japanese woman and her world / Amy Stanley.
ISBN:
9781501188527
9781501188534
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Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2020.
©2020
Physical Description:
xxvi, 324 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
The people of Tsuneno's world -- Maps -- A note on translations -- Prologue -- Faraway Places -- Half a Lifetime in the Countryside -- To Edo -- A View from a Tenement -- Samurai Winter -- Costumes for Urban Life -- Troubles at Home -- In the Office of the City Magistrate -- Endings and Afterlives -- Epilogue.
Summary:
"A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo-the city that would become Tokyo-and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West."-- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1156432623
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