My Asakusa
Subtitle: Coming of Age in Pre-War Tokyo
Contributors: Norman E. Stafford (Translator); Yasuhiro Kawamura (Translator)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780804821353
Subjects: Biography: general; Individual actors & performers; Japan; Biography / Autobiography; Actors; Women; Biography & Autobiography; General; Biography/Autobiography; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Actors & Actresses; Ethnic Cultures - General; 1908-; Sawamura, Sadako,; Biography
Description: "Written near the end of Sadako Sawamura's life, My Asakusa [Watashi no Asakusa] is a collection of autobiographical essays by a truly self-made woman. Recalling Japan at a time of great political turmoil and rapid cultural change, Sawamura shares with us her vignettes of growing up in Asakusa - one of the last of the old downtown Shitamachi neighborhoods of incessantly modernizing Tokyo - and her keen insight into the characters of those who populated her world."--BOOK JACKET.