MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2012048298
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010 $a 2012048298
020 $a9780813349008 (paperback : alkaline paper)
020 $a0813349001 (paperback : alkaline paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $aa-ja---
050 00 $aDS870$b.V65 2014
082 00 $a952/.025$223
100 1 $aVaporis, Constantine Nomikos,$d1957-
245 10 $aVoices of early modern Japan :$bcontemporary accounts of daily life during the age of the Shoguns /$cConstantine N. Vaporis.
264 1 $aBoulder, Colorado :$bWestview Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group,$c[2014]
264 4 $c©2014
300 $alvi, 296 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 245-270) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: The Shogun's Japan -- How to evaluate primary documents -- Timeline -- I. The domestic sphere -- Getting married -- Obtaining a divorce -- The consequences of adultery -- A woman's place -- II. Material life -- Fashion and sumptuary legislation -- Samurai dress and grooming standards -- Lunisolar calendar -- Japanese foodways and diet -- The communal bath -- The Japanese home -- III. The political sphere -- A foreigner's view of the Battle of Osaka -- Forging political order -- The emperor and the Kyoto aristocracy -- Weapons control in Japanese society -- Self-governance in villages -- Regulating townsmen in two cities -- IV. Foreign relations -- Regulating foreign relations -- Tokugawa Japan and Choson Korea -- Leaving a window open to the Western world -- A Dutch audience with the Shogun -- Sizing up the foreign threat -- V. Social and economic life -- The social estates -- Trying to get by on a fixed income -- The samurai and death -- Private vengeance among samurai -- Rules of merchant houses -- Dealing with deviant behavior -- Loans among the peasantry -- Unrest in the countryside -- Outcastes in Tokugawa society -- VI. Recreational life -- Advice to travelers in the Edo period -- Documentation for travel -- Children and their amusements -- The tea ceremony -- Archery and the martial arts -- Courtesans and the sex trade -- A hero for the masses -- VII. Religion and morality -- Preaching to the people -- Anti-Christian propaganda -- Controlling the populace -- Religious views of the Japanese -- The teachings of Zen Buddhism -- Appendix 1: Biographical Sketches of Important Individuals Mentioned in Text -- Appendix 2: Glossary of Terms Mentioned in Text.
651 0 $aJapan$xHistory$yTokugawa period, 1600-1868$vSources.
651 0 $aJapan$xSocial life and customs$y1600-1868$vSources.