Lust, Commerce, and Corruption - An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, By an Edo Samurai

An anonymous samurai author's detailed 1816 critique of Edo society.

List of contents

Preface Era Names Measures CurrenciesMapsPart 1: Buyo Inshi and His TimesPart 2: Matters of the World: An Account of What I Have Seen and HeardPrologueChapter 1IntroductionWarriorsChapter 2FarmersChapter 3Temple and Shrine PriestsThe Medical ProfessionChapter 4The Way of Yin and YangThe BlindLawsuitsChapter 5TownspeopleLower TownspeopleChapter 6Pleasure Districts and ProstitutesKabukiChapter 7Pariahs and OutcastsRice, Grains, and Other ProductsMountains and ForestsOn Japan Being Called a Divine LandUntimely DeathsThe Land, People, and RulerGlossaryEditions and ReferencesContributorsIndex

About the author

Mark Teeuwen is professor of Japanese studies at Oslo University. Kate Wildman Nakai is professor emerita at Sophia University, Tokyo, where she taught Japanese history.

Summary

An anonymous samurai author's detailed 1816 critique of Edo society.

Product details

• Authors: Buyao, Kate Wildman Nakai, Teeuwen, Mark Teeuwen, Mark Nakai Teeuwen
• Assisted by: Kate Wildman Nakai (Editor), Kate Wildman (Sophia University) Nakai (Editor), Nakai Kate Wildman (Editor), Mark Teeuwen (Editor), Teeuwen Mark (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.02.2014
• EAN: 9780231166447
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16644-7
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Cl; Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Cl
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Asian History