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Lust, commerce, and corruption : an account of what I have seen and heard, by an Edo samurai /

By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed headed for a new period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not last forever was far from anyone's mind.Ye...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Buyō Inshi, active 19th century (Autor)
Otros Autores: Teeuwen, Mark (Editor , Traductor), Nakai, Kate Wildman (Editor , Traductor), Fumiko, Miyazaki (Traductor), Walthall, Anne (Traductor), Breen, John (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Japonés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2017.
Edición:Abridged edition.
Colección:Translations from the Asian classics
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Measures
  • Currencies
  • Maps
  • Buyo Inshi and his times
  • Matters of the world : an account of what I have seen and heard / Buyo Inshi
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Warriors
  • Farmers
  • Temple and shrine priests
  • The blind
  • Lawsuits
  • Townspeople
  • Lower townspeople
  • Pleasure districts and prostitutes
  • Kabuki
  • Pariahs and outcasts
  • On Japan being called a divine land
  • The land, people, and ruler.