Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life - Paperback

by Kikue Yamakawa (Author), Kate Wildman Nakai (Translator)

Based on the recollection of the author's mother, other relatives, and family records, this is a vivid picture of the everyday life of a samurai household in the last years of the Tokugawa period.

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The book is a treasure house of immensely informative material. . . . An important addition to the small body of English-language works on the conditions of late Tokugawa society, told at a very human level.--Comparative Studies in Society and History

Author Biography

Yamakawa Kikue (1890-1980) was a prominent socialist and feminist who published widely in these fields. The present volume was written in 1943 and is supplemented by excerpts from her later writings.