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

"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."--

Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor principal: Stanley, Amy, 1978- (Autor)
Format: Llibre
Idioma:English
Publicat: New York : Scribner, 2020.
Edició:First Scribner hardcover edition.
Matèries:
Classic Catalogue: View this record in Classic Catalogue
Taula de continguts:
  • 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.