An Imperial Concubine's Tale : : Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan / / G. Rowley.
Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place. Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night, while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace, drinking saké and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the emperor's principal consort. Among these noblewomen was...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. A Courtier's Life, in and out of the World
- Chapter 2. The Year 1600: A World Again at War
- Chapter 3. At the Court of the Dragon
- Chapter 4. Scandal
- Chapter 5. The Tale of Kazan
- Chapter 6. Shipwreck
- Chapter 7. The Long Reprieve
- Chapter 8 Salvation
- Epilogue
- Principal Characters
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index