When the week of anxious waiting passed, Emon and his family held a small gathering. Once the baby lived for seven days, then it would be time to celebrate, to give her a name and welcome her to the community. It would be bad luck, as if the family were trying to hold on to something that wasn’t quite theirs. It was too soon, when so many infants didn’t survive. She didn’t have a name during the first week of her life. This new baby, born on the twelfth day of the third month, received simple, mostly homemade things: sticky rice cakes, sake, a set of baby clothes, dried fish flakes. Four-year-old Giyu, his mother’s firstborn son, arrived in the dead of winter, and still the temple was swamped with deliveries, package after package of sardines, sake, bolts of cloth, seaweed, dried persimmons, and folding paper fans. This was, after all, the birth of a second child-and a girl. ExcerptĬhapter One: Faraway Places Chapter One FARAWAY PLACESī aby gifts arrived at the Rinsenji temple in the spring of 1804, during the early thaw, when the paths through Ishigami Village were choked with mud. “A compelling story, traced with meticulous detail and told with exquisite sympathy” ( The Wall Street Journal), Stranger in the Shogun’s City is “a vivid, polyphonic portrait of life in 19th-century Japan evokes the Shogun era with panache and insight” ( National Review of Books). 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. 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. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan. But after three divorces-and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval-she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. 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. *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography*Ī “captivating” ( The Washington Post) 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 city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West. *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* Window.APP_STATE = JSON.*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* All rights reserved.SupportTerms of UsePrivacy Polic圜ookie PolicyDo Not Sell My Personal Information Please enable it or install a modern browser that support JavaScript.ĬareersPartnersAbout usWhere to watchSupportThis feature is coming soon.We’re currently working on it! Thanks for your patience.About UsOur StoryLeadershipNewsPressCareersBecoming A CitizenResponsibilitiesPerksWhere To WatchSmart TVStreaming DevicesMobile AppDesktop AppWatch on the webAccessibilityPartnersDistributionContent ProvidersAdvertisers© 2022 Pluto Inc. This website needs JavaScript to work properly.
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