| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 283 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-267) and index. |
| Contents |
List of illustrations; prologue: history revealed; acknowledgments; notes on conventions; time line; matsuura genealogy; List of Central Persons; Introduction: An Agrarian Childhood; 1 / The House Isami Built; 2 / Kissing Cousins; 3 / Father of the Village; 4 / Strong Wives; 5 / Urban Studies; 6 / The Marriage Pipeline; 7 / Frugality and Fancy Schemes; 8 / Outposts of Modernity; 9 / Isami's Children in Harm's Way; 10 / Hard Times on the Home Front; 11 / Surviving Hiroshima; 12 / Missed Fortunes; 14 / Absent Husband; 15 / Couples and Uncouplings; 16 / Mothering; Epilogue: Kin Work. |
| Summary |
In this powerful and evocative narrative, Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family over fourteen generations. The first of its kind in English, this book focuses on Isami, the eleventh generation patriarch and hereditary village head. Weaving back and forth between Isami's time in the first half of the twentieth century and his ancestors' lives in the Tokugawa and Meiji eras, Bernstein uses family history to convey a broad panoply of social life in Japan since the late 1600s. As the story unfolds. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Matsuura family.
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Matsuura family. |
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Matsuura family. |
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Japan -- History -- 1868-
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Japan. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1868- |
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Since 1600 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bernstein, Gail Lee. Isami's house. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2005 0520239741 0520246977 (DLC) 2005005760 (OCoLC)58043367 |
| ISBN |
9780520939424 (electronic book) |
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0520939425 (electronic book) |
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1423731492 (electronic book) |
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9781423731498 (electronic book) |
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9780520239746 |
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0520239741 |
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9780520246973 |
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0520246977 |
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1598758020 |
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9781598758023 |
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