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Stranger in the Shogun's city : a Japanese woman and her world / Amy Stanley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Scribner, 2020.Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: xxvi, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781501188527
  • 9781501188534
  • 9781501188541
Other title:
  • Japanese woman and her world
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 952.025 23
LOC classification:
  • DS896.2.T78 S73 2020
Contents:
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.
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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Book Book Ayesha Abed Library Ayesha Abed Library 952.025 STA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 3010045852
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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."-- Provided by publisher.

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