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Author Stanley, Amy, 1978- author.

Title Stranger in the Shogun's city : a Japanese woman and her world / Amy Stanley.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2020.
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  952.02 STANLEY    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F STANLEY AMY    In Transit +1 HOLD
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  952.135 STA    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  952.135 STANLEY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  952.025 STANLEY    Check Shelf
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description xxvi, 324 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-307) and index.
Contents The people of Tsuneno's world -- Maps -- A note on translations -- Prologue -- Faraway Places -- Half a Lifetime in the Countryside -- To Edo -- A View from a Tenement -- Samurai Winter -- Costumes for Urban Life -- Troubles at Home -- In the Office of the City Magistrate -- Endings and Afterlives -- Epilogue.
Summary "A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo-the city that would become Tokyo-and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Tsuneno, 1804-1853.
Women -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Social life and customs.
Divorced women -- Japan -- Biography.
Tokyo (Japan) -- History -- 19th century.
Tokyo (Japan) -- Biography.
Divorced women. (OCoLC)fst00895945
Women -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst01176964
Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
Japan -- Tokyo. (OCoLC)fst01204835
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Online version: Stanley, Amy. Stranger in the Shogun's city. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2020 9781501188541 (DLC) 2020004840
ISBN 9781501188527 (hardcover)
1501188526 (hardcover)
9781501188534 (paperback)
1501188534 (paperback)
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