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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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"The book is a treasure house of immensely informative material. . . . An important addition to the small body of English-language works on the conditions of late Tokugawa society, told at a very human level."—Comparative Studies in Society and History

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Women of the Mito Domain

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    A Paperback / softback by Kikue Yamakawa, Kate Wildman Nakai

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 1 April 2002
      ISBN-13 9780804731492
      978-0804731492
      ISBN-10 0804731497

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "The book is a treasure house of immensely informative material. . . . An important addition to the small body of English-language works on the conditions of late Tokugawa society, told at a very human level."—Comparative Studies in Society and History

      Table of Contents
      Contents

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