Stranger in the Shogun's City. A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

  • Автор: Stanley Amy
  • Издательство: Vintage books
  • Год выпуска: 2021 *
  • Обложка: мягкая обложка
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The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a village in Japan's snow country and was expected to lead a life much like her mother's. Instead - after three divorces and with a temperament much too strong-willed for her family's approval - she ran away to follow her own path in Edo, the city we now call Tokyo.
Stranger in the Shogun's City is a rare, captivating portrait of one woman as she endeavours to recreate herself and her life, and provides a window into the drama and excitement of Japan at a pivotal moment in history.