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Lust, Commerce, and Corruption - An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai, Abridged Edition (Abridged, Paperback, abridged edition)
Mark Teeuwen, Kate Wildman Nakai; As told to Fumiko Miyazaki, Anne Walthall, John Breen
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By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and
moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent
economic and social stresses, the country seemed headed for a new
period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not last
forever was far from anyone's mind. Yet, in that year, an anonymous
samurai produced a scathing critique of Edo society. Writing as
Buyo Inshi, "a retired gentleman of Edo," he expressed in An
Account of What I Have Seen and Heard a profound despair with the
state of the realm. Seeing decay wherever he turned, Buyo feared
the world would soon descend into war. In his anecdotes, Buyo shows
a sometimes surprising familiarity with the shadier aspects of Edo
life. He speaks of the corruption of samurai officials; the
suffering of the poor in villages and cities; the operation of
brothels; the dealings of blind moneylenders; the selling and
buying of temple abbotships; and the dubious strategies seen in law
courts. Perhaps it was the frankness of his account that made him
prefer to stay anonymous. A team of Edo specialists undertook the
original translation of Buyo's work. This abridged edition
streamlines this translation for classroom use, preserving the
scope and emphasis of Buyo's argument while eliminating repetitions
and diversions. It also retains the introductory essay that
situates the work within Edo society and history.
In 1862, fifty-one-year-old Matsuo Taseko left her old life behind
by traveling to Kyoto, the old imperial capital. Peasant, poet, and
local political activist, Taseko had come to Kyoto to support the
nativist campaign to restore the Japanese emperor and expel Western
"barbarians." Although she played a minor role in the events that
led to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, her actions were nonetheless
astonishing for a woman of her day. Honored as a hero even before
her death, Taseko has since been adopted as a patron saint by
rightist nationalists.
In telling Taseko's story, Anne Walthall gives us not just the
first full biography in English of a peasant woman of the Tokugawa
period (1603-1868), but also fresh perspectives on the practices
and intellectual concerns of rural entrepreneurs and their role in
the Meiji Restoration. Writing about Taseko with a depth and
complexity that has thus far been accorded only to men of that
time, Walthall has uncovered a tale that will captivate anyone
concerned with women's lives and with Japan's dramatic transition
to modernity.
The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short
biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them
unknown outside their family and locality, whose lives collectively
span the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their stories present
a counterweight to the prevailing stereotypes, providing students
with depictions of real people through the records they have
left-records that detail experiences and aspirations. The Human
Tradition in Modern Japan offers a human-scale perspective that
focuses on individuals, reconstitutes the meaning of people's
experiences as they lived through them, and puts a human face on
history. It skillfully bridges the divides between the sexes,
between the local and the national, and between rural and urban, as
well as spanning crucial moments in the history of modern Japan.
The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is an excellent resource for
courses on Japanese history, East Asian history, and peoples and
cultures of Japan.
By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and
moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent
economic and social stresses, the country seemed to be approaching
a new period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not last
forever was far from anyone's mind. Yet, in that year, an anonymous
samurai author completed one of the most detailed critiques of Edo
society known today. Writing as Buyo Inshi, "a retired gentleman of
Edo," he expresses a profound despair with the state of the realm
and with people's behavior and attitudes. He sees decay wherever he
turns and believes the world will soon descend into war. Buyo shows
a familiarity with many corners of Edo life that one might not
expect in a samurai. He describes the corruption of samurai
officials; the suffering of the poor in villages and cities; the
operation of brothels; the dealings of blind moneylenders; the
selling and buying of temple abbotships; and the dubious strategies
townspeople use in the law courts. Perhaps the frankness of his
account, which contains a wealth of concrete information about Edo
society, made him prefer to remain anonymous. This volume contains
a full translation of Buyo's often-quoted but rarely studied work
by a team of specialists on Edo society. Together with extensive
annotation of the translation, the volume includes an introduction
that situates the text culturally and historically.
Written by top scholars in the field, EAST ASIA: A CULTURAL,
SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL HISTORY, VOLUME II: FROM 1600, 3E delivers a
comprehensive cultural, political, economic, and intellectual
history of East Asia, while focusing on the narratives and
histories of China, Japan, and Korea in a larger, global context.
Full color inserts on such topics as food, clothing, and art
objects illustrate the rich artistic heritage of East Asia. A range
of primary source documents spotlights women's independence,
students-turned-soldiers, and other stirring issues, while
intriguing biographical sketches throughout highlight the lives of
popular figures and ordinary people alike.
Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the
phenomenon called the "child crisis." Various media teem with
intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child
suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of
socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government
to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum. These
issues have propelled Japan into the center of a set of global
conversations about the nature of children and how to raise them.
Engaging both the history of children and childhood and the history
of emotions, contributors to this volume track Japanese childhood
through a number of historical scenarios. Such explorations-some
from Japan's early-modern past-are revealed through letters,
diaries, memoirs, family and household records, and religious
polemics about promising, rambunctious, sickly, happy, and dutiful
youngsters.
Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials,
maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women
who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe,
this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have
dominated much of human history. Written by leading historians,
anthropologists, and archeologists, these lively essays take us
from Mayan states to twentieth-century Benin in Nigeria, to the
palace of Japanese Shoguns, the Chinese Imperial courts,
eighteenth-century Versailles, Mughal India, and beyond. Together
they investigate how women's roles differed, how their roles
changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the
structures of power and societies in which they lived. This work
also furthers our understanding of how royal courts, created to
project the authority of male rulers, maintained themselves through
the reproductive and productive powers of women.
The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of
manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first
centuries. "Recreating Japanese Men" examines a broad range of
attitudes regarding properly masculine pursuits and modes of
behavior. It charts breakdowns in traditional and conventional
societal roles and the resulting crises of masculinity.
Contributors address key questions about Japanese manhood ranging
from icons such as the samurai to marginal men including
hermaphrodites, robots, techno-geeks, rock climbers, shop clerks,
soldiers, shoguns, and more. In addition to bringing historical
evidence to bear on definitions of masculinity, contributors
provide fresh analyses on the ways contemporary modes and styles of
masculinity have affected Japanese men's sense of gender as
authentic and stable.
<div>Combining translations of five peasant narratives with
critical commentary on their provenance and implications for
historical study, this book illuminates the life of the peasantry
in Tokugawa Japan.</div>
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Lust, Commerce, and Corruption - An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai, Abridged Edition (Abridged, Hardcover, abridged edition)
Mark Teeuwen, Kate Wildman Nakai; As told to Fumiko Miyazaki, Anne Walthall
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R2,622
R2,366
Discovery Miles 23 660
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By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and
moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent
economic and social stresses, the country seemed headed for a new
period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not last
forever was far from anyone's mind. Yet, in that year, an anonymous
samurai produced a scathing critique of Edo society. Writing as
Buyo Inshi, "a retired gentleman of Edo," he expressed in An
Account of What I Have Seen and Heard a profound despair with the
state of the realm. Seeing decay wherever he turned, Buyo feared
the world would soon descend into war. In his anecdotes, Buyo shows
a sometimes surprising familiarity with the shadier aspects of Edo
life. He speaks of the corruption of samurai officials; the
suffering of the poor in villages and cities; the operation of
brothels; the dealings of blind moneylenders; the selling and
buying of temple abbotships; and the dubious strategies seen in law
courts. Perhaps it was the frankness of his account that made him
prefer to stay anonymous. A team of Edo specialists undertook the
original translation of Buyo's work. This abridged edition
streamlines this translation for classroom use, preserving the
scope and emphasis of Buyo's argument while eliminating repetitions
and diversions. It also retains the introductory essay that
situates the work within Edo society and history.
Although scholars have emphasized the importance of women's
networks for civil society in twentieth century Japan, Women and
Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan is the first book to tackle
the subject for the contentious and consequential nineteenth
century. The essays traverse the divide when Japan started
transforming itself from a decentralized to a centralized
government, from legally imposed restrictions on movement to the
breakdown of travel barriers, and from ad hoc schooling to
compulsory elementary school education. As these essays suggest,
such changes had a profound impact on women and their roles in
networks. Rather than pursue a common methodology, the authors take
diverse approaches to this topic that open up fruitful avenues for
further exploration. Most of the essays in this volume are by
Japanese scholars; their inclusion here provides either an
introduction to their work or the opportunity to explore their
scholarship further. Because women are often invisible in
historical documentation, the authors use a range of sources
(diaries, letters, legal documents, etc.) to reconstruct the
familial, neighborhood, religious, political, work, and travel
networks that women maintained, constructed, or found themselves
in, sometimes against their will. In so doing, most but not all of
the authors try to decenter historical narratives built on men's
activities and men's occupational and status-based networks, and
instead recover women's activities in more localized groupings and
personal associations.
This volume marks an important moment not only in the study of
gender and women in Japanese society but also in the development of
collaborative efforts between Japanese and western scholars on the
subject. It is a product of half a decade of international seminars
and discussions held among scholars of various disciplines and
perspectives who share the goal of promoting a better understanding
of the historical and contemporary constructions of gender in
Japan.
In 1862, fifty-one-year-old Matsuo Taseko left her old life behind
by traveling to Kyoto, the old imperial capital. Peasant, poet, and
local political activist, Taseko had come to Kyoto to support the
nativist campaign to restore the Japanese emperor and expel Western
"barbarians." Although she played a minor role in the events that
led to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, her actions were nonetheless
astonishing for a woman of her day. Honored as a hero even before
her death, Taseko has since been adopted as a patron saint by
rightist nationalists.
In telling Taseko's story, Anne Walthall gives us not just the
first full biography in English of a peasant woman of the Tokugawa
period (1603-1868), but also fresh perspectives on the practices
and intellectual concerns of rural entrepreneurs and their role in
the Meiji Restoration. Writing about Taseko with a depth and
complexity that has thus far been accorded only to men of that
time, Walthall has uncovered a tale that will captivate anyone
concerned with women's lives and with Japan's dramatic transition
to modernity.
Written by top scholars in the field, EAST ASIA: A CULTURAL,
SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL HISTORY, 3E delivers a comprehensive
cultural, political, economic, and intellectual history of East
Asia, while focusing on the narratives and histories of China,
Japan, and Korea in a larger, global context. Full color inserts on
such topics as food, clothing, and art objects illustrate the rich
artistic heritage of East Asia. A range of primary source documents
spotlights women's independence, students-turned-soldiers, and
other stirring issues, while intriguing biographical sketches
throughout highlight the lives of popular figures and ordinary
people alike.
Written by top scholars in the field, PRE-MODERN EAST ASIA: A
CULTURAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL HISTORY, VOLUME I: To 1800, 3E
delivers a comprehensive cultural, political, economic, and
intellectual history of East Asia, while focusing on the narratives
and histories of China, Japan, and Korea in a larger, global
context. Full color inserts on such topics as food, clothing, and
art objects illustrate the rich artistic heritage of East Asia. A
range of primary source documents is included throughout, while
intriguing biographical sketches highlight the lives of popular
figures as well as ordinary people.
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