Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600â1868
- ISBN-10
- 0824818504
- ISBN-13
- 9780824818500
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-04-01
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Author
- Kazuo Nishiyama
Description
Edo Culture is a thoroughly original and sensitive reading of a vast range of source materials, written and otherwise. Japan historians and others interested in Edo popular culture, urban history, literature, and art will welcome this consistently insightful work by one of Japan's most influential historians of the early modern period.
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