Isami's house : three centuries of a Japanese family /
In this powerful and evocative narrative, Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family over fourteen generations. The first of its kind in English, this book focuses on Isami, the eleventh generation patri...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- The house Isami built
- Kissing cousins
- Father of the village
- Strong wives
- Urban studies
- The marriage pipeline
- Frugality and fancy schemes
- Outposts of modernity
- Isami's children in harm's way
- Hard times on the home front
- Surviving hiroshima
- Missed fortunes
- Making history
- Absent husband
- Couples and uncouplings
- Mothering
- Epilogue: Kin work.