Edo Culture; Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868 / Edition 1

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Overview

Nishiyama Matsunosuke is one of the most important historians of Tokugawa (Edo) popular culture, yet until now his work has never been translated into a Western language. Edo Culture presents a selection of Nishiyama's writings that serves not only to provide an excellent introduction to Tokugawa cultural history but also to fill many gaps in our knowledge of the daily life and diversions of the urban populace of the time. Many essays focus on the most important theme of Nishiyama's work: the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries as a time of appropriation and development of Japan's culture by its urban commoners.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780824818500
  • Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, The
  • Publication date: 6/28/1997
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 309
  • Product dimensions: 6.28 (w) x 9.27 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Table of Contents

Historical Periods
Translator's Introduction 1
Introduction: The Study of Edo-Period Culture 7
Pt. I Edo: The City and Its Culture
1 Edo: The Warrior's City 23
2 Edokko: The Townsperson 41
3 Iki: The Aesthetic of Edo 53
4 Edo Publishing and Ukiyo-e 64
5 Edo Temples and Shrines 76
Pt. II The Town and the Country
6 Provincial Culture of the Kasei Period (1804-1830) 95
7 Itinerants, Actors, Pilgrims 113
8 Edo-Period Cuisine 144
Pt. III Theater and Music: From the Bakufu to the Beggar
9 The Social Context of No 181
10 Social Strata and Music 198
11 The Aesthetics of Kabuki 212
12 Popular Performing Arts: From Edo to Meiji 228
Afterword 251
Notes 253
Glossary 269
Selected References 281
Sources to Chapters 297
Index 299
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