San'ya blues: laboring life in contemporary Tokyo
Over the years, Edward Fowler, an American academic, became a familiar presence in San'ya, a run-down neighborhood in northeastern Tokyo. Working as a day laborer himself, Fowler kept a diary of his experiences. The resulting oral histories, juxtaposed with Fowler's narrative and diary ent...
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| Summary: | Over the years, Edward Fowler, an American academic, became a familiar presence in San'ya, a run-down neighborhood in northeastern Tokyo. Working as a day laborer himself, Fowler kept a diary of his experiences. The resulting oral histories, juxtaposed with Fowler's narrative and diary entries, bring to life a community on the margins of contemporary Japan. |
| Physical Description: | XXI, 262 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0801432472 |
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Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
A Note on Language and Money xxi
PROLOGUE i
i SETTING 9
A Tour of San ya 16
Two San ya Landmarks 26
The Morning Labor Market 30
Edo, Tokyo, San ya 3 5
The San ya Doyagai 43
An Evening at the Palace 48
2 LIVES S3
Day Laborers 5 3
Union Members and Sympathizers 88
Proprietors and Shopkeepers 98
Bureaucrats 109
Missionaries 116
Other Voices 121
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CONTENTS
3 ACTIVISM 131
Labor Union Workshop 131
Union Planning Session 137
Maria Restaurant 140
Citizens Patrol 144
4 RITES 151
Fall and Winter Festivals 152
Year Forgetting Party 158
Requiem for a Yama Man 160
Ridge Raising Ceremony 166
Farewells 169
5 WORK 175
EPILOGUE 225
Interviewing: Memory as Oral History 231
Glossary 239
Suggested Readings 245
General Index 253
Index of Pseudonyms 261
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MAPS
Japan and environs xxiv
Prefectures of Japan 7
Central Tokyo 10
San ya and environs 18
The San ya doyagai 22
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Iroha Arcade, east entrance 4
The doyagai in Kiyokawa 12
Morning yoseba, from the front of the Palace House 31
Construction in Tokyo (Asakusa) 38
Inside the Palace House 45
Construction in Tokyo (Hongo) 63
Summer Festival: men relaxing 84
Man slumbering on Old Streetcar Boulevard 119
Construction in Tokyo (Ueno) 136
Caged playing field at Tamahime Park 146
Summer Festival: dancing 153
Doya resident in three mat room 164
Shinden construction site 177
Breakfast at an open air restaurant 181
Morning market 189
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