This Naoki Prize-winning work is a personal yet precise account of the lives of working women in the Edo period (1600-1868). In the latter half of the Edo period, the warrior caste was finding itself pushed out of the top echelons of society by the rising merchant class, and repeated famines swept the countryside. Against this backdrop, a small number of women vigorously built themselves independent lives with unusual careers--working as designers of ornamental hairpins, or even scribes--in the male-dominated society of the ... Read More
This Naoki Prize-winning work is a personal yet precise account of the lives of working women in the Edo period (1600-1868). In the latter half of the Edo period, the warrior caste was finding itself pushed out of the top echelons of society by the rising merchant class, and repeated famines swept the countryside. Against this backdrop, a small number of women vigorously built themselves independent lives with unusual careers--working as designers of ornamental hairpins, or even scribes--in the male-dominated society of the day. The stories in The Budding Tree recount the conditions in which these women lived. Read Less
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First English translation. Minor surface and edge wear to the dust jacket, but not bad. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Cloth boards in fine condition, but with a small bump on the lower spine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 161 p. Japanese Literature. Audience: General/trade.
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Fine in Fine jacket. pp. 170. First English translation. Originally published in 2003. ng Gray cloth, octavo. 170 pages. "Stories of working women in the Edo Period, 1600-1868" Fine copy in a fine dust jacket in a mylar protector.
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Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1564784894. Translated from the Japanese by Ian MacDonald. First edition thus. Small spot of abrasion on front free endpaper, else near fine in a fine dust jacket.
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Fine in near fine jacket. First edition, 2008. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 170 pp., clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, light rubbing or wear to the edges of the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Dalkey Archive Press, 2008; stated First English Translation, no additional printings indicated. VG+ hardcover in VG+ dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. Unclipped ($21.95) dust jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. From a private collection (NOT ex-library). Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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