Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
By Amy Stanley
Hardcover
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By Amy Stanley
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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
A "captivating" (The Washington Post) work of narrative history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in 19th-century Edo-period Japan-and portrays the city that would become Tokyo 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 ...
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
A "captivating" (The Washington Post) work of narrative history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in 19th-century Edo-period Japan-and portrays the city that would become Tokyo 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 ...






















