The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko: One Woman’s Transit from Tokugawa to Meiji Japan 9780824853891

The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko is the story of a self-described "base-born nobody" who tried to chang

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 9780824853891

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Flight of a Sparrow
Part I Tokiko’s World
1. A Nest and a Nexus
2. Circles and Circumstances
Part II The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko
3. Glimpses of History (The Script)
4. From Script to Stage
5. Caged Bird
6. The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko
7. Transitions
Part III Memory, Manipulation, and Amnesia
8. Rescuing The Past from the Present
9. The Many Reincarnations of Kurosawa Tokiko
10. Circles Redrawn: The View from 1930s Mito
11. Encores: New Scripts
Conclusion The Doing That Matters
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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