An edition of Voices of early modern Japan
(2014)
Voices of early modern Japan
contemporary accounts of daily life during the age of the Shoguns
by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
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Sources, History, Social life and customs, Japan, history, Japan, social life and customs, General asian historyPlaces
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Voices of early modern Japan: contemporary accounts of daily life during the age of the Shoguns
2014, Routledge
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0813349001 9780813349008
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The Shogun's Japan
How to evaluate primary documents
Timeline
I. The domestic sphere
Getting married
Obtaining a divorce
The consequences of adultery
A woman's place
II. Material life
Fashion and sumptuary legislation
Samurai dress and grooming standards
Lunisolar calendar
Japanese foodways and diet
The communal bath
The Japanese home
III. The political sphere
A foreigner's view of the Battle of Osaka
Forging political order
The emperor and the Kyoto aristocracy
Weapons control in Japanese society
Self-governance in villages
Regulating townsmen in two cities
IV. Foreign relations
Regulating foreign relations
Tokugawa Japan and Choson Korea
Leaving a window open to the Western world
A Dutch audience with the Shogun
Sizing up the foreign threat
V. Social and economic life
The social estates
Trying to get by on a fixed income
The samurai and death
Private vengeance among samurai
Rules of merchant houses
Dealing with deviant behavior
Loans among the peasantry
Unrest in the countryside
Outcastes in Tokugawa society
VI. Recreational life
Advice to travelers in the Edo period
Documentation for travel
Children and their amusements
The tea ceremony
Archery and the martial arts
Courtesans and the sex trade
A hero for the masses
VII. Religion and morality
Preaching to the people
Anti-Christian propaganda
Controlling the populace
Religious views of the Japanese
The teachings of Zen Buddhism
Appendix 1: Biographical Sketches of Important Individuals Mentioned in Text
Appendix 2: Glossary of Terms Mentioned in Text.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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