Stranger in the Shogun's city : a Japanese woman and her world /
Stanley, Amy, 1978-
Stranger in the Shogun's city : a Japanese woman and her world / Japanese woman and her world Amy Stanley. - First Scribner hardcover edition. - New York : Scribner, 2020. - xxvi, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-307) and index.
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.
"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."--
9781501188527 9781501188534 9781501188541
2020004839
DS896.2.T78 / S73 2020
952.025
Stranger in the Shogun's city : a Japanese woman and her world / Japanese woman and her world Amy Stanley. - First Scribner hardcover edition. - New York : Scribner, 2020. - xxvi, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-307) and index.
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.
"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."--
9781501188527 9781501188534 9781501188541
2020004839
DS896.2.T78 / S73 2020
952.025