Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

Stranger in the Shogun's City

A Japanese Woman and Her World

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Amy Stanley
Amy Stanley
2020 • 352 pages

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"A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo-the city that would become Tokyo-and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West."--

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