Simon Partner

Koume's World

The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration

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Produktbeschreibung

Kawai Koume (1804-1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in a provincial castle town. Through her 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9780231211840
• ISBN-10: 0231211848
• Artikelnr.: 68100367

Autorenporträt

Simon Partner is professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of three previous books that chronicle modern Japanese history through the lives of ordinary people such as farmers, shopkeepers, and housewives, including most recently The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan (Columbia, 2018).

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Preface and Acknowledgments
Kawai Family Tree
Monetary Values
Chronology
Introduction
1. Growing Up in Kish¿ Domain
2. A Year of Calamities
3. In the Shadow of the Black Ships
4. Work and Family
5. War and Revolution
6. The Artist's Life
7. Across the Divide
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index