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WOMAN IN THE CRESTED KIMONO
THE LIFE OF SHIBUE IO AND HER FAMILY DRAWN FROM MORI OGAI'S SHIBUE CHUSAI |
| By: |
Edwin McClellan |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£21.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300046189 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300046182 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
16 August, 1989 |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
Shibue Io was the daughter of a merchant family in 19th-century Japan and wife of a scholar-doctor of the samurai class. This book draws on the biography of her husband, written by Mori Ogai, to tell her story, and the story of her society, and her times. |
| Synopsis: |
"The life of Shibue Io and her family, a kind of Japanese Buddenbrooks, may be unknown in the West, but her rich and engaging story marks the intersection of a remarkable woman with a fascinating time in history."-Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha"It stands clichEs about traditional Japan on their heads. . . .Together with the people she knew, Io lives on in this literary album of old family pictures. It is well worth looking at."-Ian Buruma, New York Times Book Review"A most engaging book. Seeing Shibue Io through the various lenses of her husband, her son, Tamotsu (from whom much information is gleaned), the novelist Ogai, and the biographer McClellan is an interesting, moving, disarming experience."-Donald Richie, Japan Times "McClellan. . . has created a lively world, populated by women of various classes, samurai, doctors, poets, merchants, juvenile delinquents, and old eccentrics. The various incidents in which these people become involved provide a vivid picture of late Tokugawa society. This is a remarkable accomplishment."-Nakai Yoshiyuki, Monumenta Nipponica"An engrossing, informative, and extremely useful book. . . . Woman in the Crested Kimono is not simply the account of one unusual Tokugawa woman. It is an evocation of a family, and through a family the entire samurai class, going from the comparative affluence of the late Tokugawa period through the turmoils of the restoration and beyond."-Susan Napier, Journal of Asian StudiesDaughter of a merchant family in nineteenth-century Japan and wife of a distinguished scholar-doctor of the samurai class, Shibue Io was a woman remarkable in her own right for her exceptionally keen mind and fearless spirit. Edwin McClellan now draws on the biography of her husband, written by Mori Ogai, to tell the story of Shibue Io, her society, and her times. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of New York Times Notable Book 1985 |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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