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English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The baby girl, Tsuneno, was born in 1804. She had everything she needed for the first few months of her life. Her family had old clothes and rags to piece together for diapers, so she could be changed whenever she was wet.
#2 Tsuneno's family were investors and planners. They had to be, since even substantial fortunes could be lost quickly through bad harvests...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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."--