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This intimate and richly informative diary kept in 1910 by the young wife of a bustling merchant household in Kyoto is an engaging, unique glimpse into the lives of ordinary people in early twentieth-century Japan. Includes 53 illustrations.

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"All the relevant explication, notes, maps and illustrations a researcher of modern Japanese social history could desire. . . . [The book] offers insights into the daily lives of 20th-century Japanese women and helps dispel the mythology." -- Library Journal
"This truly remarkable diary . . . [is] a valuable text for a wide range of classes in anthropology, history, and women's studies." -- Margery Wolf * University of Iowa *

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Makikos Diary A Merchant Wife in 1910 Kyoto

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/01/1995
      ISBN13: 9780804724418, 978-0804724418
      ISBN10: 0804724415
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This intimate and richly informative diary kept in 1910 by the young wife of a bustling merchant household in Kyoto is an engaging, unique glimpse into the lives of ordinary people in early twentieth-century Japan. Includes 53 illustrations.

      Trade Review
      "All the relevant explication, notes, maps and illustrations a researcher of modern Japanese social history could desire. . . . [The book] offers insights into the daily lives of 20th-century Japanese women and helps dispel the mythology." -- Library Journal
      "This truly remarkable diary . . . [is] a valuable text for a wide range of classes in anthropology, history, and women's studies." -- Margery Wolf * University of Iowa *

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