| Descript |
xiv, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 413 |
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 413
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| Note |
"Offers a new history of early modern Japan that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, peasants, and people at the margins of society such as entertainers, laborers, and outcastes. This is the first book to explore how high and low people in Tokugawa society negotiated and collaborated with one other"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-334) and index |
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The castle town and domain of Ono -- Beggars by birth: an outcaste group in domain society -- The management of mendicancy -- The guilds of the blind -- Benevolence, charity, or duty? Hunger relief in the castle town -- Growth through gratitude: welfare in a mercantilist domain |
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Social classes -- Japan -- History
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Japan -- Social conditions -- 1600-1868
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Poverty -- Japan -- History
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Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
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