Kawai Koume (1804â 1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in a provincial castle town. Through her eyes and words, Simon Partner opens a window on social, economic, and cultural life amid some of the most dramatic periods of Japanâ s transformative nineteenth century.
Kawai Koume (1804â 1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in a provincial castle town. Through her eyes and words, Simon Partner opens a window on social, economic, and cultural life amid some of the most dramatic periods of Japanâ s transformative nineteenth century.
Simon Partner is professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of three previous books that chronicle modern Japanese history through the lives of ordinary people such as farmers, shopkeepers, and housewives, including most recently The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan (Columbia, 2018).
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Preface and Acknowledgments Kawai Family Tree Monetary Values Chronology Introduction 1. Growing Up in Kish¿ Domain 2. A Year of Calamities 3. In the Shadow of the Black Ships 4. Work and Family 5. War and Revolution 6. The Artist's Life 7. Across the Divide Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Preface and Acknowledgments Kawai Family Tree Monetary Values Chronology Introduction 1. Growing Up in Kish¿ Domain 2. A Year of Calamities 3. In the Shadow of the Black Ships 4. Work and Family 5. War and Revolution 6. The Artist's Life 7. Across the Divide Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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