In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:G. G. Rowley (Translator), Ōgimachi MachikoSeries:Translations from the Asian ClassicsPublish date:2021-06-29Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231199513ISBN-10:231199511UPC:9780231199513Book Category:Literary Collections, HistoryBook Subcategory:Asian, Asia, ModernBook Topic:Japanese, Japan, 17th CenturySize:9.13 x 5.98 x 0.87 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC5Z91X04J
In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan
In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have...
Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231199513ISBN-10:231199511UPC:9780231199513Book Category:Literary Collections, HistoryBook Subcategory:Asian, Asia, ModernBook Topic:Japanese, Japan, 17th CenturySize:9.13 x 5.98 x 0.87 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC5Z91X04J
G. G. Rowley teaches English and Japanese literature at Waseda University in Tokyo. She is the author or translator of several biographies of Japanese women, including An Imperial Concubine's Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan (Columbia, 2013) and Autobiography of a Geisha (Columbia, 2003).
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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