Isami's House : Three Centuries of a Japanese Family /

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In this powerful and evocative narrative, Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family over fourteen generations. The first of its kind in English, this book focuses on Isami, the eleventh generation patri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bernstein, Gail Lee
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Matsuura family.
Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
REFERENCE > Genealogy & Heraldry.
Japan.
Japon > Histoire > 1868-
Japon > Histoire > 1600-1868 (Époque des Tokugawa)
Japan > History > 1868-
Japan > History > Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations; prologue: history revealed; acknowledgments; notes on conventions; time line; matsuura genealogy; List of Central Persons; Introduction: An Agrarian Childhood; 1 / The House Isami Built; 2 / Kissing Cousins; 3 / Father of the Village; 4 / Strong Wives; 5 / Urban Studies; 6 / The Marriage Pipeline; 7 / Frugality and Fancy Schemes; 8 / Outposts of Modernity; 9 / Isami's Children in Harm's Way; 10 / Hard Times on the Home Front; 11 / Surviving Hiroshima; 12 / Missed Fortunes; 14 / Absent Husband; 15 / Couples and Uncouplings; 16 / Mothering; Epilogue: Kin Work.

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