Эми Стэнли — новинки

Многогранная история-путешествие японской женщины, которая противостоит традиционным устоям общества первой половины XIX века, а также портрет великого Эдо – города, который скоро станет Токио. Богатый портрет эпохи через историю человека.

Многогранная история-путешествие японской женщины, которая противостоит традиционным устоям общества первой половины XIX века, а также портрет великого Эдо — города, который скоро станет Токио. Дочь буддийского священнослужителя Цунено родилась в 1804 году в небольшой японской деревне. Казалось бы, ей предстоит в точности повторить судьбу своей матери, бабушки и всех женщин прошлых поколений. Но после трех неудачных браков, устроенных ее семьей, эта непокорная дочь проявила бунтарский характер и решила бежать из дома в огромный, кипучий город сегунов — Эдо, будущий Токио, который мы застаем накануне встречи с западной…

A 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.

The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces, she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo.

In the book we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno’s life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture—and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions.

This book traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, it describes how the work of "selling women" transformed communities across the archipelago. By focusing on the social implications of prostitutes' economic behavior, this study offers a new understanding of how and why women who work in the sex trade are marginalized. It also demonstrates how the patriarchal order of the early modern state was undermined by the emergence of the market economy, which changed the places of women in their households and the realm at large.