Stranger in the Shogun's city : a Japanese woman and her world
(2020)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
952.025/STANLEY,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, 2020
EDITION
First Scribner hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
xxvi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781501188527, 1501188526 :, 9781501188534, 9781501188527
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
One. Faraway Places -- Two. Half a Lifetime in the Countryside -- Three. To Edo -- Four. A View from a Tenement -- Five. Samurai Winter -- Six. Costumes for Urban Life -- Seven. Troubles at Home -- Eight. In the Office of the City Magistrate -- Nine. 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."--