The budding tree: six stories of love in Edo

In the latter half of the Edo period, the warrior caste was finding itself pushed out of the top echelons of Japanese society & repeated famines swept the countryside. Against this backdrop, a small number of women built themselves independent lives. The stories in this book recount the conditio...

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1. Verfasser: Kitahara, Aiko 1938-2013 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: MacDonald, Ian McCullough (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Japanese
Veröffentlicht: Champaign, Ill. Dalkey Archive Press 2008
Ausgabe:1. Engl. transl.
Schriftenreihe:Japanese literature series
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Zusammenfassung:In the latter half of the Edo period, the warrior caste was finding itself pushed out of the top echelons of Japanese society & repeated famines swept the countryside. Against this backdrop, a small number of women built themselves independent lives. The stories in this book recount the conditions in which these women lived.
Beschreibung:"Originally published in Japanese as Koiwasuregusa by Bungei Shunju, Tokyo". - T.p. verso
Beschreibung:170 S.
ISBN:9781564784896
1564784894