Isami's house: three centuries of a Japanese family
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1. Verfasser: Bernstein, Gail Lee (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press ©2005
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-267) and index
List of illustrations; prologue: history revealed; acknowledgments; notes on conventions; time line; matsuura genealogy; List of Central Persons; Introduction: An Agrarian Childhood; 1 / The House Isami Built; 2 / Kissing Cousins; 3 / Father of the Village; 4 / Strong Wives; 5 / Urban Studies; 6 / The Marriage Pipeline; 7 / Frugality and Fancy Schemes; 8 / Outposts of Modernity; 9 / Isami's Children in Harm's Way; 10 / Hard Times on the Home Front; 11 / Surviving Hiroshima; 12 / Missed Fortunes; 14 / Absent Husband; 15 / Couples and Uncouplings; 16 / Mothering; Epilogue: Kin Work
In this powerful and evocative narrative, Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family over fourteen generations. The first of its kind in English, this book focuses on Isami, the eleventh generation patriarch and hereditary village head. Weaving back and forth between Isami's time in the first half of the twentieth century and his ancestors' lives in the Tokugawa and Meiji eras, Bernstein uses family history to convey a broad panoply of social life in Japan since the late 1600s. As the story unfolds
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 283 pages, [18] pages of plates)
ISBN:0520239741
0520246977
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