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Title Stranger in the Shogun's city : a Japanese woman and her world / Amy Stanley.

Publication Info.	New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2020.
	�2020

Location	Pub Note	Copy No.	Status
Galena PL Adult Non-Fiction - GALY-13	NEW 952.025 STA		DUE 01-25-21
Rock Island Main Lib Adult Non-Fiction - RIPG-6	952.135 STA		IN-PROCESS

Edition	First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description	xxvi, 324 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The people of Tsuneno's world -- Maps -- A note on translations -- Prologue -- Faraway Places -- Half a Lifetime in the Countryside -- To Edo -- A View from a Tenement -- Samurai Winter -- Costumes for Urban Life -- Troubles at Home -- In the Office of the City Magistrate -- Endings and Afterlives -- Epilogue.
Summary	"A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo-the city that would become Tokyo-and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Tsuneno, 1804-1853.
	Women -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Social life and customs.
	Divorced women -- Japan -- Biography.
	Divorced women. (OCoLC)fst00895945
	Women -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst01176964
	Tokyo (Japan) -- History -- 19th century.
	Tokyo (Japan) -- Biography.
	Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
	Japan -- Tokyo. (OCoLC)fst01204835
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Biographies.
ISBN	9781501188527 hardcover
	1501188526 hardcover
	9781501188534 paperback
	1501188534 paperback