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Edo Culture
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Kazuo Nishiyama
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-04-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Nishiyama Matsunosuke is one of the most important historians of Tokugawa (Edo) popular culture, yet until now his work has never been translated into a Western
Tour of Duty
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-12 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title Alternate attendance (sankin kotai) was one of the central institutions of Edo-period (1603-1868) Japan and one of the most
Cultivating Femininity
Language: en
Pages: 205
Authors: Rebecca Corbett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (ch
Excursions in Identity
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Laura Nenzi
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-16 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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In the Edo period (1600–1868), status- and gender-based expectations largely defined a person’s place and identity in society. The wayfarers of the time, ho
Edo, the City that Became Tokyo
Language: en
Pages: 211
Authors: Akira Naito
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Kodansha Amer Incorporated

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An illustrated account of the growth and development of Japan's capital cityrom the 16th to the end of the 19th centuries, this text gives a full anducid accoun