The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko : : One Woman's Transit from Tokugawa to Meiji Japan / / Laura Nenzi.
The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko is the story of a self-described "base-born nobody" who tried to change the course of Japanese history. Kurosawa Tokiko (1806-1890), a commoner from rural Mito domain, was a poet, teacher, oracle, and political activist. In 1859 she embraced the xeno...
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 12 b&w images, 5 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Flight of a Sparrow
- Part I Tokiko's World
- 1. A Nest and a Nexus
- 2. Circles and Circumstances
- Part II The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko
- 3. Glimpses of History (The Script)
- 4. From Script to Stage
- 5. Caged Bird
- 6. The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko
- 7. Transitions
- Part III Memory, Manipulation, and Amnesia
- 8. Rescuing The Past from the Present
- 9. The Many Reincarnations of Kurosawa Tokiko
- 10. Circles Redrawn: The View from 1930s Mito
- 11. Encores: New Scripts
- Conclusion The Doing That Matters
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author