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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Japonés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2017.
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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.