Stranger in the Shogun's city : a Japanese woman and her world / Amy Stanley.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: xxvi, 324 pages : maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- cartographic image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781501188527
- 1501188526
- 9781501188534
- 1501188534
- Tsuneno, 1804-1853
- Women -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Social life and customs
- Divorced women -- Japan -- Biography
- Tokyo (Japan) -- History -- 19th century
- Tokyo (Japan) -- Biography
- Divorced women
- Women -- Social life and customs
- Japan
- Japan -- Tokyo
- Tsuneno, 1804-1853
- Women -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Social life and customs
- Divorced women -- Japan -- Biography
- Tokyo (Japan) -- History -- 19th century
- Tokyo (Japan) -- Biography
- 1800-1899
- 952/.025 B 23
- DS896.2.T78 S73 2020
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Harrison Memorial Library BIOGRAPHY | Adult Nonfiction | BIO TSUNEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31624004316261 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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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