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69%OFFAiko Kitahara - The Budding Tree: Six Stories of Love in Edo - 9781564784896 - 9781564784896
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The Budding Tree: Six Stories of Love in Edo

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Description for The Budding Tree: Six Stories of Love in Edo Hardcover.
This Naoki Prize-winning work is a personal yet precise account of the lives of working women in the Edo period (1600-1868). In the latter half of the Edo period, the warrior caste was finding itself pushed out of the top echelons of society by the rising merchant class, and repeated famines swept the countryside. Against this backdrop, a small number of women vigorously built themselves independent lives with unusual careers--working as designers of ornamental hairpins, or even scribes--in the male-dominated society of the day. The stories in The Budding Tree recount the conditions in which these women lived.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
161
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564784896
SKU
9781564784896
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About Aiko Kitahara
Ian Macdonald was born and educated in Glasgow and worked for several years on Scottish newspapers before moving to Canada. He was a reporter in Ontario and Alberta before finding his way to the West Coast where he worked on the "Victoria Colonist", the Vancouver "Province" and the "Vancouver Sun". He was Ottawa correspondent for the "Sun" for five years ... Read more

Reviews for The Budding Tree: Six Stories of Love in Edo
a welcome addition to understanding the lives of Edo-period Japanese as they move toward the globalization of today.' -Asian Review of Books

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