(Ebook) Voices of Early Modern Japan by Vaporis, Constantine N., Vaporis, Constantine ISBN 9780367437244, 9780367427931, 9781003005292, 9781000280913, 0367437244, 0367427931, 1003005292, 1000280918

(Ebook) Voices of Early Modern Japan by Vaporis, Constantine N., Vaporis, Constantine ISBN 9780367437244, 9780367427931, 9781003005292, 9781000280913, 0367437244, 0367427931, 1003005292, 1000280918

Getting Married: "Agreement Regarding a Dowry" (1815) -- Obtaining a Divorce: An Appeal for Assistance (1850) and Letters of Divorce (1857, Undated) -- The Consequences of Adultery: "The Eavesdropper Whose Ears Were Burned" (1686) -- A Woman's Place: Onna Daigaku (The Greater Learning for Women, 1716) and Tadano Makuzu's Hitori Kangae (Solitary Thoughts, 1818) -- Fashion and Sumptuary Legislation: Ihara Saikaku's The Japanese Family Storehouse (Nippon eitai gura, 1688); List of Clothing Prohibitions for Edo Townsmen (1719) -- Samurai Dress and Grooming Standards: Prohibitions of 1615 and 1645 -- Lunisolar Calendar: Calendar for Seventh Year of Kaei (1854): Samurai in Armor -- Japanese Foodways and Diet: The Accounts of Joao Rodrigues (1620-21), Yamakawa Kikue (1943), and Terakada Seiken (1832-36) -- The Communal Bath: Shikitei Sanba's "The Women's Bath" (Ukiyoburo, 1810) Information Classification: General -- The Japanese Home: Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa Made During the Years 1770 & 1779 -- A Foreigner's View of the Battle of Osaka: Richard Cocks's Account of the Fall of Osaka Castle (1615) -- Forging Political Order: "Laws for the Military Houses" (1615, 1635) -- The Emperor and the Kyoto Aristocracy: "Regulations for the Imperial Palace and the Court Nobility" (1615) -- Weapons Control in Japanese Society: Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "Sword Hunt" (1588) and "A Local Ordinance Regarding Swords" (1648) -- Self-Governance in Villages: Goningumi (Five-Household Group) Laws (1640) -- Regulating Townspeople in Two Cities: City Code from Kanazawa (1642) and Notice Board in Edo (1711) -- Regulating Foreign Relations: The "Closed Country Edicts" (sakoku rei, 1635, 1639) -- Tokugawa Japan and Choson Korea: Record of a Journey Across the Sea (1719) -- Leaving a Window Open to the Western World: Letter from a Nagasaki Official to the Dutch Governor-General (1642) -- A Dutch Audience with the Shogun: Englebert Kaempfer's The History of Japan (1692…