Everyday Things in Premodern Japan - The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture

"A wonderfully original, cogently argued, and very readable book. Hanley provides persuasive answers to some of the largest questions historians have been asking about the relationship of premodern social and economic conditions to the modern development of Japan."—Stephen Vlastos, author of Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan

List of contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION

I
The Level of Physical Well-Being in Tokugawa Japan
2
Housing and Furnishings
3
A Resource-Efficient Culture
4
A Healthful Lifestyle
5
Urban Sanitation and Physical Well-Being
6
Demographic Patterns and Well-Being
7
Stability in Transition: From the Tokugawa Period
to the Meiji Period
8
Physical Well-Being: A Comparative Perspective

GLOSSARY
INDEX

About the author

Susan B. Hanley is Professor of Japanese Studies and History at the University of Washington. She is coeditor of Family and Population in East Asian History (1985).

Summary

Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. This title considers daily life in the three centuries leading up to the modern era in Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Susan B. Hanley, Hanley Susan B.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.06.1999
• EAN: 9780520218123
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21812-3
• No. of pages: 227
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Japan, History, Asia, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Asian History