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Isami's house : three centuries of a Japanese family

Title: Isami's house : three centuries of a Japanese family / Gail Lee Bernstein.
Author: Bernstein, Gail Lee.
Publication: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Description

xxviii, 283 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits; 23 cm

Subject

Matsuura family
Japan > History > Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
Japan > History > 1868-

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-267) and index.

Contents

Prologue : history revealed -- Matsuura genealogy -- 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 -- 13. Making history -- 14. Absent husband -- 15. Couples and uncouplings -- 16. Mothering -- Epilogue : kin work.

ISBN

0520239741 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520246977 (pbk.)

LCCN

2005005760
9780520246973

OCLC

ocm58043367
SCSB-13628443

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Columbia University Libraries