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Koume’s World - The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration
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Koume’s World - The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration
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Kawai Koume (1804–1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and
a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family
in the provincial castle town of Wakayama. She was an eyewitness to
many of the key events leading up to the Meiji Restoration and the
radical changes that followed, including the famine of 1837, the
great earthquake of 1854, the cholera epidemic of 1859, and the
departure of samurai to fight in the civil wars of the 1860s. For
more than fifty years, she kept a diary recording her family’s
daily life—meals and expenses, visitors and the weather,
small-town gossip and news of momentous events. Through Koume’s
eyes and words, Simon Partner opens a window on social, economic,
and cultural life amid some of the most dramatic periods of
Japan’s transformative nineteenth century. Koume’s World
vividly portrays the everyday activities, social interactions,
information networks, cultural production, and household economy of
a samurai family across the Tokugawa-Meiji divide. Partner’s
narrative offers a remarkably detailed portrait of the dynamic
working life of a female artist and household manager while also
giving a regional perspective on the upheavals surrounding the
Meiji Restoration. A compelling microhistorical study of gender,
economy, and society in nineteenth-century Japan, Koume’s World
is a compelling account of how one woman experienced both mundane
routines and drastic social transformations.
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Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Simon Partner
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
312 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-21184-0 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-231-21184-8 |
Barcode: |
9780231211840 |
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