Hatamoto

Author : James L. McClain
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801436307
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Osaka, the Merchant's Capital of Early Modern Japan written by James L. McClain and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first books to focus on a city other than Edo during the Tokugawa era, this work extends our understanding of Japanese urban life during that period. Portraying Osaka as a regional center of government with vibrant economic life and high and low culture, the book reveals much about the city's distinctiveness and development.

Author : Amy Stanley
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1501188526
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stranger in the Shogun's City written by Amy Stanley and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Nominated for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award * Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography * 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. The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces—and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval—she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno’s life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture—and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions. Immersive and fascinating, Stranger in the Shogun’s City is a revelatory work of history, layered with rich detail and delivered with beautiful prose, about the life of a woman, a city, and a culture.

Author : Yosaburo Takekoshi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136523804
Total Pages : 1482 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan written by Yosaburo Takekoshi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 1482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by Allen & Unwin in 1930 this 3-volume collection brings together writings on the economic aspects of Japan's history. Covering the period from the 1600s until the 1920s this work offers the reader, not only an economic history of the Japanese, but also a social and political history. By explaining the realities of daily life during the periods covered, this collection allows the economic aspects to be fully appreciated.

Author : Sorai Ogyū
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447040754
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ogyu Sorai's Discourse on Government (Seidan) written by Sorai Ogyū and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward the end of his life, the Japanese Confucian thinker Ogyu Sorai (1666-1728) wrote a memorandum entitled Seidan, Political Discourse, about the political and economic situation in Japan, probably at the request of the authorities and possibly the shogun, Yoshimune, himself. It is an extensive treatise which touches practically all fields of life around 1725-1727 and it is therefore a goldmine for anyone who wishes to acquaint himself with Japanese history in mid-Tokugawa times. The work was written in secrecy and it was therefore not known even by his students. It began to circulate in handwritten copies in the 1750s. Today it is a central work and a monument in the socalled keizaigaku genre of Japanese political-economic literature and is found in every collection of Tokugawa intellectual literature and referred to by all scholars who deal with Tokugawa history. The present work includes a full translation of the Seidan.

Author : Takekoshi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136524649
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Econ Aspects Hist Civil Japan written by Takekoshi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Yosaburō Takekoshi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415323819
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan written by Yosaburō Takekoshi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Porto
Publisher : Christopher Porto
ISBN 13 : 0988301814
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian Nietzsche: A Book for All Civilizations written by Christopher Porto and published by Christopher Porto . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Asian Nietzsche, I have attempted to re-create the “philosophical conversation” and - partly by means of humor and surprising references to popular culture, sex, and lingerie - make accessible to contemporary audiences discussions of the comparative study of ideas, religions, nations, and civilizations. This includes an inquiry into the origins of fundamental or revolutionary creativity as compared to the far more common phenomenon across societies and world history, namely, relative cultural stasis or a lack of fundamental creativity and innovation.

Author : David J. Lu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317467140
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan: A Documentary History written by David J. Lu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of David Lu's acclaimed "Sources of Japanese History", this book presents in a student-friendly format original Japanese documents from Japan's mythological beginnings through 1995. Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual history, this classroom resource offers insight not only into the past but also into Japan's contemporary civilisation. Three major criteria used in the document selection were that: the selection avoids duplication with other collections - 75% of the documents presented here are newly translated; a document accurately reflects the spirit of the times and the life-styles of the people; and emphasis is on the development of social, economic and political institutions.

Author : Walter Dening
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan in Days of Yore written by Walter Dening and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178200016X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hatamoto written by Stephen Turnbull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each great samurai warlord, or daimyo, had a division of troops known as the Hatamoto, 'those who stand under the flag'. The Hatamoto included the personal bodyguards, the senior generals, the standard bearers and colour-guard, the couriers, and the other samurai under the warlord's personal command. Apart from bodyguard and other duties in immediate attendance on the daimyo, both horse and foot guards often played crucial roles in battle. Their intervention could turn defeat into victory, and their collapse meant certain defeat. As favoured warriors under the warlord's eye, members of the bodyguards could hope for promotion, and a few even rose to be daimyo themselves. All the three great leaders of the 16 and 17th centuries – including Oda, Hideyoshi and Tokugawa – had their own elite corps. Such troops were naturally distinguished by dazzling apparel and heraldry, with banners both carried and attached to the back of the armour, all of which will be detailed in an array of colour artwork specially created for this publication.