Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index.
Contents
The forgotten history of Japanese divorce -- For the sake of the house : Edo-period patterns, perceptions, and precedents -- Testing a spouse : the trial marriage system -- Unsuitable to the family tradition? : Popular divorce customs in the 1870s -- Between French law and Japanese customs : codifying divorce in Meiji Japan -- When marriage was on the rise : declining divorce rates, 1898-1940 -- Forward to the past : a historical perspective on Japanese divorce after World War II.