The budding tree : six stories of love in Edo / Aiko Kitahara ; translated by Ian MacDonald
- Bib ID:
- 4607018
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Uniform Title:
- Koiwasuregusa. English and 恋忘れ草. English
- Description:
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- Champaign, Ill. : Dalkey Archive Press, 2008
- 170 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781564784896
- 1564784894
- Summary:
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"This Naoki Prize-winning work is a personal yet precise account of the lives of working women in the Edo period (1600-1868). In the latter half of the Edo period, the warrior caste was finding itself pushed out of the top echelons of society by the rising merchant class, and repeated famines swept the countryside. Against this backdrop, a small number of women vigorously built themselves independent lives with unusual careers - working as designers of ornamental hairpins, or even scribes - in the male-dominated society of the day. The stories in The Budding Tree recount the conditions in which these women lived."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Love's chill wind
- Eight-tenths a man
- No time for tears
- Innocent in love
- Forget-me-not
- The budding tree.
- Notes:
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- Translation of: "Koiwasuregusa" published by Bungei Shunju in 1993.
- "This book has been selected by the Japanese Literature Publishing Project (JLPP) which is run by the Japanese Literature Publishing and Promotion Centre (J-Lit Center) on behalf of the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan"--T.p. verso.
- Translated from the Japanese.
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2008
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