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      The Land We Saw, the Times We Knew: An Anthology of Zuihitsu Writing from Early Modern Japan

      Gerald Groemer

      Japanese zuihitsu (essays) offer a treasure trove of information and insights rarely found in any other genre of Japanese writing. The seven zuihitsu translated and annotated in this volume date…

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      The Land We Saw, the Times We Knew: An Anthology of Zuihitsu Writing from Early Modern Japan

      Gerald Groemer

      Japanese zuihitsu (essays) offer a treasure trove of information rarely found in any other genre of Japanese writing. Especially during their golden age, the Edo period, zuihitsu treated a great…

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      A Year in Seventeenth-Century Kyoto: Edo-Period Writings on Annual Ceremonies, Festivals, and Customs

      Gerald Groemer

      Explains Japanese conceptions of time and space within which annual celebrations took place and outline how ceremonies and festivals in and about Kyoto were chronicled, described, and interpreted from the…

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      A Year in Seventeenth-Century Kyoto

      Gerald Groemer

      Explains Japanese conceptions of time and space within which annual celebrations took place and outlines how these were chronicled, described, and interpreted up to the seventeenth century. The book also…

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      Portraits of Edo and Early Modern Japan: The Shogun’s Capital in Zuihitsu Writings, 1657-1855

      Gerald Groemer

      This volume presents a series of five portraits of Edo, the central region of urban space today known as Tokyo, from the great fire of 1657 to the devastating earthquake…

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      Portraits of Edo and Early Modern Japan: The Shogun’s Capital in Zuihitsu Writings, 1657-1855

      Gerald Groemer

      This volume presents a series of five portraits of Edo, the central region of urban space today known as Tokyo, from the great fire of 1657 to the devastating earthquake…

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      Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600-1900: The Beggar’s Gift

      Gerald Groemer (Yamanashi University, Kofu, Japan)

      This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of music, theatre, recitation, and dance witnessed by the populace on thoroughfares, plazas, and…

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      Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600-1900: The Beggar’s Gift

      Gerald Groemer (Yamanashi University, Kofu, Japan)

      This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of music, theatre, recitation, and dance witnessed by the populace on thoroughfares, plazas, and…

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      Goze: Women, Musical Performance, and Visual Disability in Traditional Japan

      Gerald Groemer (Professor, Professor, University of Yamanashi)

      In a tradition extending from the medieval era up through the middle of the 19th century, visually disabled Japanese women known as Goze would tour the Japanese countryside as professional…

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      Goze: Women, Musical Performance, and Visual Disability in Traditional Japan

      Gerald Groemer (Professor, Professor, University of Yamanashi)

      In a tradition extending from the medieval era up through the middle of the 19th century, visually disabled Japanese women known as Goze would tour the Japanese countryside as professional…

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

      Kazuo Nishiyama

      Presents a selection of Nishiyama Matsunosuke’s writings that serves not only to provide an excellent introduction to Tokugawa cultural history but also to fill many gaps in our knowledge of…

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

      Nishiyama Matsunosuke

      Presents a selection of Nishiyama Matsunosuke’s writings that serves not only to provide an excellent introduction to Tokugawa cultural history but also to fill many gaps in our knowledge of…

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      Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture: An Illustrated Sourcebook

      Provides material on Japanese arts and culture from the prehistoric era to the Meiji Restoration (1867). These sources, including many translations, are placed in their historical context and outfitted with…

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