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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: 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
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781501188527
  • 1501188526
  • 9781501188534
  • 1501188534
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 952/.025 B 23
LOC classification:
  • DS896.2.T78 S73 2020
Contents:
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.
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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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK Harrison Memorial Library BIOGRAPHY Adult Nonfiction BIO TSUNEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31624004316261
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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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