Lust, commerce, and corruption : an account of what I have seen and heard, by an Edo Samurai / trans...
Lust, commerce, and corruption : an account of what I have seen and heard, by an Edo Samurai / trans...
Lust, commerce, and corruption : an account of what I have seen and heard, by an Edo Samurai / translated by Mark Teeuwen, Kate Wildman Nakai, Miyazaki Fumiko, Anne Walthall, and John Breen ; edited and with an introduction by Mark Teeuwen and Kate Wildman Nakai.
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
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G 2018/0455
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Language
English
Japanese
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Physical content
xi, 473 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Era Names -- Measures -- Currencies -- Maps -- Part 1. Buyō Inshi and His Times -- Part 2. Matters of the World : An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard / Buyō Inshi -- Prologue -- Warriors -- Farmers -- Temple and Shrine Priests -- The Medical Profession -- The Way of Yin and Yang -- The Blind...
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2014]
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Summary
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 co...
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Lust, commerce, and corruption : an account of what I have seen and heard, by an Edo Samurai / translated by Mark Teeuwen, Kate Wildman Nakai, Miyazaki Fumiko, Anne Walthall, and John Breen ; edited and with an introduction by Mark Teeuwen and Kate Wildman Nakai.
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Translations from the Asian classics
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-455) and index.
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G 2018/0455
Record Identifier
74VKVG0WkQZg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVG0WkQZg
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ISBN
9780231166447 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0231166443 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
DDC
952.025
MMS ID
991024155814402626
