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Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai
Mark Teeuwen (Ed.)
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Paperback. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: HRA; JWXZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed headed for a new period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not last forever was far from anyone's mind. Yet, in that year, an anonymous samurai produced a scathing critique of Edo society. Writing as Buyo Inshi, a retired gentleman of Edo, he expressed in An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard a profound despair with the state of the realm. Seeing decay wherever ... Read more
By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed headed for a new period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not last forever was far from anyone's mind. Yet, in that year, an anonymous samurai produced a scathing critique of Edo society. Writing as Buyo Inshi, a retired gentleman of Edo, he expressed in An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard a profound despair with the state of the realm. Seeing decay wherever ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Translations from the Asian Classics
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231182775
SKU
V9780231182775
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About Mark Teeuwen (Ed.)
Mark Teeuwen is professor in Japanese studies at the University of Oslo. He is a historian of Japanese religion, with special focus on the history of Shinto. Kate Wildman Nakai is professor emerita at Sophia University, Tokyo. Her research focuses on Tokugawa and modern history, with an emphasis on intellectual developments. Fumiko Miyazaki is professor emerita at Keisen University ... Read more
Reviews for Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai
This is not the familiar Edo-period Japan you've studied in class. It is instead a cynical, critical, no-holds-barred account of all that an observant samurai found wrong with his society. Corruption, degeneration, destitution, monks on the make: it is a world in decline that he depicts, and the superb introduction puts it all in context. Things may not have been ... Read more