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An Imperial Concubine´s Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan
G. G. Rowley
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Description for An Imperial Concubine´s Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 maps, 1 recorded music items, 11 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512. Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan. 280 pages, 3 maps, 1 recorded music items, 11 colour illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; HBJF; HBLH. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 23. Weight: 512.
Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place. Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night, while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace, drinking sake and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the emperor's principal consort. Among these noblewomen was an imperial concubine named Nakanoin Nakako, who in 1609 became embroiled in a sex scandal involving both courtiers and young women in the emperor's service. As punishment, Nakako was banished to an island in the Pacific Ocean, but she never reached her destination. Instead, she was shipwrecked and spent fourteen years in a ... Read more
Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place. Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night, while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace, drinking sake and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the emperor's principal consort. Among these noblewomen was an imperial concubine named Nakanoin Nakako, who in 1609 became embroiled in a sex scandal involving both courtiers and young women in the emperor's service. As punishment, Nakako was banished to an island in the Pacific Ocean, but she never reached her destination. Instead, she was shipwrecked and spent fourteen years in a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
280
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
511g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231158541
SKU
V9780231158541
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About G. G. Rowley
G. G. Rowley teaches English and Japanese literature at Waseda University in Tokyo. She has written and/or translated several biographies of Japanese women, including Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji and Masuda Sayo's Autobiography of a Geisha.
Reviews for An Imperial Concubine´s Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan
...An enjoyable book
John Butler Asian Review of Books ...A fresh, detailed engagement
simultaneously biographical, historical, and literary
with the lives of a court family that survived a tumultous age of war and exile.
Satoko Shimazaki Japanese Language and Literature Sophisticated yet accessible, the book would be an ideal reading for an undergraduate class.
Laura Nenzi Sixteenth Century Journal ... Read more
John Butler Asian Review of Books ...A fresh, detailed engagement
simultaneously biographical, historical, and literary
with the lives of a court family that survived a tumultous age of war and exile.
Satoko Shimazaki Japanese Language and Literature Sophisticated yet accessible, the book would be an ideal reading for an undergraduate class.
Laura Nenzi Sixteenth Century Journal ... Read more