Voices of early modern Japan
Subtitle: contemporary accounts of daily life during the age of the Shoguns
By: Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780813349008
Subjects: Sources; History; Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Shogun's Japan; title: How to evaluate primary documents; title: Timeline; title: I. The domestic sphere; title: Getting married; title: Obtaining a divorce; title: The consequences of adultery; title: A woman's place; title: II. Material life; title: Fashion and sumptuary legislation; title: Samurai dress and grooming standards; title: Lunisolar calendar; title: Japanese foodways and diet; title: The communal bath; title: The Japanese home; title: III. The political sphere; title: A foreigner's view of the Battle of Osaka; title: Forging political order; title: The emperor and the Kyoto aristocracy; title: Weapons control in Japanese society; title: Self-governance in villages; title: Regulating townsmen in two cities; title: IV. Foreign relations; title: Regulating foreign relations; title: Tokugawa Japan and Choson Korea; title: Leaving a window open to the Western world; title: A Dutch audience with the Shogun; title: Sizing up the foreign threat; title: V. Social and economic life; title: The social estates; title: Trying to get by on a fixed income; title: The samurai and death; title: Private vengeance among samurai; title: Rules of merchant houses; title: Dealing with deviant behavior; title: Loans among the peasantry; title: Unrest in the countryside; title: Outcastes in Tokugawa society; title: VI. Recreational life; title: Advice to travelers in the Edo period; title: Documentation for travel; title: Children and their amusements; title: The tea ceremony; title: Archery and the martial arts; title: Courtesans and the sex trade; title: A hero for the masses; title: VII. Religion and morality; title: Preaching to the people; title: Anti-Christian propaganda; title: Controlling the populace; title: Religious views of the Japanese; title: The teachings of Zen Buddhism; title: Appendix 1: Biographical Sketches of Important Individuals Mentioned in Text; title: Appendix 2: Glossary of Terms Mentioned in Text.