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Informationen zum Autor Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Ph.D. Klappentext Based on fresh translations of historical documents, this volume offers a revealing look at Japan during the time of the Tokugawa shoguns from 1600-1868, focusing on the day-to-day lives of both the rich and powerful and ordinary citizens. Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns spans an extraordinary period of Japanese history, ranging from the unification of the warring states under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early 17th century to the overthrow of the shogunate just prior to the mid-19th century opening of Japan by the West.Through close examinations of sources from a time known as "The Great Peace," this fascinating volume offers fresh insights into the Tokugawa era-its political institutions, rigid class hierarchy, artistic and material culture, religious life, and more. Sources come from all levels of Japanese society, everything from government documents and household records to personal correspondence and diaries, all carefully translated and examined in light of the latest scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Shogun's Japan Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents Timeline of Japanese History from the Mid-Sixteenth Century through the Tokugawa Period, 1543-1868 Documents of the Shogun's Japan The Domestic Sphere 1. Getting Married: "Agreement Regarding a Dowry" (1815) 2. Obtaining a Divorce: An Appeal for Assistance (1850) and Letters of Divorce (1857, undated) 3. The Consequences of Adultery: "The Eavesdropper Whose Ears Were Burned" (1686) 4. A Woman's Place: Onna Daigaku (The Greater Learning for Women, 1716) and Tadano Makuzu's Hitori Kangae (Solitary Thoughts, 1818) Material Life 5. Regulating Fashion and Consumption: Ihara Saikaku's The Japanese Family Storehouse ( Nippon eitai gura , 1688); List of Prohibitions Concerning Clothing for Edo Townsmen (1719) 6. Samurai Dress and Grooming Standards: Prohibitions of 1615 and 1645 7. Lunisolar Calendar: Calendar for Seventh Year of Kaei (1854): Samurai in Armor 8. Japanese Foodways and Diet: The Accounts of Joao Rodrigues (1620-1621), Yamakawa Kikue (1943), and Edo hanjôki (1832-1836) 9. The Communal Bath: Shikitei Sanba's "The Women's Bath" ( Ukiyoburo , 1810) 10. The Japanese Home: Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa Made during the Years 1770 and 1779 (1791) The Political Sphere 11. A Foreigner's View of the Battle of Osaka: Richard Cocks's Account of the Fall of Osaka Castle (1615) 12. Forging Political Order: "Laws for the Military Houses" (1615, 1635) 13. The Emperor and the Kyoto Aristocracy: "Regulations for the Imperial Palace and the Court Nobility" (1615) 14. Weapons Control in Japanese Society: Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "Sword Hunt" (1588) and "A Local Edo Ordinance Regarding Swords" (1648) 15. Self-Governance in Villages: Goningumi (Five-Household Group) Laws (1640) 16. Regulating Townspeople in Two Cities: City Code from Kanazawa (1642) and Notice Board in Edo (1711) Foreign Relations 17. Regulating Foreign Relations: The "Closed Country Edicts" ( sakoku rei , 1635, 1639) 18. Tokugawa Japan and Choson Korea: "The Diary of Shin Yu-han" (1719) 19. Leaving a Window Open to the Western World: Letter from a Nagasaki Official to the Dutch Governor General (1642) 20. A Dutch Audience with the Shogun: Englebert Kaempfer's The History of Japan (1692) 21. Sizing Up the Foreign Threat: Aizawa Seishisai's Shinron (New Theses, 1825) Social and Economic Life 22. The Social Estates: Yamaga Sokô on "The Way of the Samurai" ( shidô ) 23. Trying to Get by on a Fixed Income: The Economic Problems Facing the Sam...
