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Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
By Stanley, Amy
- ISBN
- 9781501188527
- Publisher
- Scribner
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Reviewed on September 4, 2020 | Social Sciences
Stanley (history, Northwestern Univ.; Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan) offers a look into the lives of ordinary people living in early 19th-century Japan. The bulk of the story follows the life of Tsuneno, the daughter of a Buddhist priest raised in rural Echigo Province (modern day Niigata Prefecture) on the snowy western coast. Although not from the upper echelons of society, being...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
