Edo Culture : : Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600–1868 / / Kazuo Nishiyama.
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 cu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1997] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Historical Periods
- Translator’s Introduction
- Introduction: The Study of Edo-Period Culture
- Part I. Edo: The City and Its Culture
- 1. Edo: The Warrior’s City
- 2. Edokko: The Townsperson
- 3. Iki: The Aesthetic of Edo
- 4. Edo Publishing and Ukiyo-e
- 5. Edo Temples and Shrines
- Part II. The Town and the Country
- 6. Provincial Culture of the Kasei Period (1804 –1830)
- 7. Itinerants, Actors, Pilgrims
- 8. Edo-Period Cuisine
- Part III. Theater and Music: From the Bakufu to the Beggar
- 9. The Social Context of Nō
- 10. Social Strata and Music
- 11. The Aesthetics of Kabuki
- 12. Popular Performing Arts: From Edo to Meiji
- Afterword
- Notes
- Glossary
- Selected References
- Sources to Chapters
- Index
- About the author