Koume's world : the life and work of a samurai woman before and after the Meiji restoration /
"Kawai Koume (1804-1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in the provincial castle town of Wakayama. She was an eyewitness to many of the key events leading up to the Meiji Restoration and the radical changes that followe...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Growing up in Kishu Domain
- A year of calamities
- In the shadow of the black ships
- Work and family
- War and revolution
- The artist's life
- Across the divide.