Edo Culture
Subtitle: daily life and diversions in urban Japan, 1600-1868
By: Nishiyama Matsunosuke ; translated and edited by Gerald Groemer.
Contributors: Groemer, Gerald, 1957-
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Honolulu, HI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Japan -- Civilization -- 1600-1868
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index.