Stranger in the Shogun's City : a Japanese woman and her world
Stanley, Amy
Stranger in the Shogun's City : a Japanese woman and her world / Amy Stanley - New York : Scribner , c2020 - 324 pages ; 24 cm
Just a few years after the turn of the nineteenth century, a baby named Tsuneno was born to a Buddhist priest and his wife in a rural village in Japan. Exécted to live a traditional life much like her mother's, she instead grew up to be a fiery, strong-willed woman,who, after three divorces, ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world : Edo - now Tokyo - a bustling metrópolis at its peak. Tsuneno's life provides a window into nineteenth-century Japanese culture.
English
9781501188527
Tsuneno (1804-1853)
Social life and customs
Divorced women ----Biography
Tokyo (Japan)---Social life and customs
92 TSU
Stranger in the Shogun's City : a Japanese woman and her world / Amy Stanley - New York : Scribner , c2020 - 324 pages ; 24 cm
Just a few years after the turn of the nineteenth century, a baby named Tsuneno was born to a Buddhist priest and his wife in a rural village in Japan. Exécted to live a traditional life much like her mother's, she instead grew up to be a fiery, strong-willed woman,who, after three divorces, ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world : Edo - now Tokyo - a bustling metrópolis at its peak. Tsuneno's life provides a window into nineteenth-century Japanese culture.
English
9781501188527
Tsuneno (1804-1853)
Social life and customs
Divorced women ----Biography
Tokyo (Japan)---Social life and customs
92 TSU
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