Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life |  | Author: Kikue Yamakawa
Creator: Kate Nakai
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 228
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0804731497
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.420952131
EAN: 9780804731492
ASIN: 0804731497
Publication Date: April 1, 2002
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Based on the recollection of the author’s mother, other relatives, and family records, this is a vivid picture of the everyday life of a samurai household in the last years of the Tokugawa period.
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a realistic and engaging account of samurai life May 9, 2007
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This is a very realistic and engaging account of samurai life just before the Meji restoration. Samurais are not idealised in this book, but instead their every day life is described. The focus is on women, as it retells history mainly from the view of the author's mother, but as women were completely dependent on men at the time, a lot of the account deals with how men as well as women lived. Topics such as school, dress, dwellings, amusments, family, marriage and divorce are covered, and at the same time the unrest in Mito domain before the restoration. The grandfather of the author had his own school and worked at the Office of Japanese History. He was one of the lower class samurai, but was recognized by the daimyo for his great learning and taught even his children at some point.
If you want to understand Japanese society in the 19th century up to the Restoration, this is an extremly interesting book. Highly recommended!
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