Isami's House Three Centuries of a Japanese Family

Name: Isami's House Three Centuries of a Japanese Family
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ISBN: 9780520246973

ISBN-10: 0520246977

ISBN-13: 9780520246973

Edition: 2006

Authors: Gail Lee Bernstein

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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, she provides remarkable details and absorbing anecdotes about food, famines, peasant uprisings,…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/7/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 314
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Gail Lee Bernstein is Professor of History at the University of Arizona.



List of Figures Prologue: History Revealed


Acknowledgments


Reader's Guide


Introduction: An Agrarian Childhood


Part One



The House Isami Built



Kissing Cousins



Father of the Village



Strong Wives


Part Two



Urban Studies



The Marriage Pipeline



Frugality and Fancy Schemes


Part Three



Outposts of Modernity



Isami's Children in Harm's Way



Hard Times on the Home Front



Surviving Hiroshima



Missed Fortunes



Making History


Part Four



Absent Husband



Couples and Uncouplings



Mothering Epilogue: Kinwork


Notes


Credits


Index