Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600–1868 9780824862299

Nishiyama Matsunosuke is one of the most important historians of Tokugawa (Edo) popular culture, yet until now his work

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Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600–1868
9780824862299

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Kazuo Nishiyama
Gerald Groemer

Table of contents :
CONTENTS
Historical Periods
Translator’s Introduction
Introduction: The Study of Edo-Period Culture
Part I. Edo: The City and Its Culture
1. Edo: The Warrior’s City
2. Edokko: The Townsperson
3. Iki: The Aesthetic of Edo
4. Edo Publishing and Ukiyo-e
5. Edo Temples and Shrines
Part II. The Town and the Country
6. Provincial Culture of the Kasei Period (1804 –1830)
7. Itinerants, Actors, Pilgrims
8. Edo-Period Cuisine
Part III. Theater and Music: From the Bakufu to the Beggar
9. The Social Context of Nō
10. Social Strata and Music
11. The Aesthetics of Kabuki
12. Popular Performing Arts: From Edo to Meiji
Afterword
Notes
Glossary
Selected References
Sources to Chapters
Index
About the author

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