Voices of Early Modern Japan

Santa Barbara : : ABC-CLIO, , 2012.

1 online resource (330 p.)

Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Shogun's Japan; Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents; Timeline of Japanese History from the Mid-Sixteenth Century through the Tokugawa Period, 1543-1868; DOCUMENTS OF THE SHOGUN'S JAPAN; The Domestic Sphere; 1. Getting Married: "Agreement Regarding a Dowry" (1815); 2. Obtaining a Divorce: An Appeal for Assistance (1850) and Letters of Divorce (1857, undated); 3. The Consequences of Adultery: "The Eavesdropper Whose Ears Were Burned" (1686). - 13. The Emperor and the Kyoto Aristocracy: "Regulations for the Imperial Palace and the Court Nobility" (1615)14. Weapons Control in Japanese Society: Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "Sword Hunt" (1588) and "A Local Edo Ordinance Regarding Swords" (1648); 15. Self-Governance in Villages: Goningumi (Five-Household Group) Laws (1640); 16. Regulating Townspeople in Two Cities: City Code from Kanazawa (1642) and Notice Board in Edo (1711); Foreign Relations; 17. Regulating Foreign Relations: The "Closed Country Edicts" (sakoku rei, 1635, 1639). - 18. Tokugawa Japan and Choson Korea: "The Diary of Shin Yu-han" (1719)19. Leaving a Window Open to the Western World: Letter from a Nagasaki Official to the Dutch Governor General (1642); 20. A Dutch Audience with the Shogun: Englebert Kaempfer's The History of Japan (1692); 21. Sizing Up the Foreign Threat: Aizawa Seishisai's Shinron (New Theses, 1825); Social and Economic Life; 22. The Social Estates: Yamaga Sokô on "The Way of the Samurai" (shidô). - 23. Trying to Get by on a Fixed Income: The Economic Problems Facing the Samurai, as Seen in a Letter from Tani Tannai to Saitaniya Hachirôbei Naomasu (1751) and a Statement from Three Village Leaders to a Tokugawa Bannerman (1856). - 4. A Woman's Place: Onna Daigaku (The Greater Learning for Women, 1716) and Tadano Makuzu's Hitori Kangae (Solitary Thoughts, 1818)Material Life; 5. Regulating Fashion and Consumption: Ihara Saikaku's The Japanese Family Storehouse (Nippon eitai gura, 1688); List of Prohibitions Concerning Clothing for Edo Townsmen (1719); 6. Samurai Dress and Grooming Standards: Prohibitions of 1615 and 1645; 7. Lunisolar Calendar: Calendar for Seventh Year of Kaei (1854): Samurai in Armor. - 8. Japanese Foodways and Diet: The Accounts of Joao Rodrigues (1620-1621), Yamakawa Kikue (1943), and Edo hanjôki (1832-1836)9. The Communal Bath: Shikitei Sanba's "The Women's Bath" (Ukiyoburo, 1810); 10. The Japanese Home: Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa Made during the Years 1770 and 1779 (1791); The Political Sphere; 11. A Foreigner's View of the Battle of Osaka: Richard Cocks's Account of the Fall of Osaka Castle (1615); 12. Forging Political Order: "Laws for the Military Houses" (1615, 1635). - Based on fresh translations of historical documents, this volume offers a revealing look at Japan during the time of the Tokugawa shoguns from 1600-1868, focusing on the day-to-day lives of both the rich and powerful and ordinary citizens.

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