Stranger in the Shogun's City : A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan Condition:Good page-turning read about belonging

page-turning read about belonging

and the realm is governed by a self-interested elite

global (rather than a regional or national) approach - tracing those major forces

finds reconciliation

sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story between Richard and Lucia

Stranger in the Shogun's City : A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan Condition:Good page-turning read about belongingA vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo now known as Tokyo and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous changeThe daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a life much like her mothers. But after three divorces and with a temperament much too strong willed for her familys approval she ran away to make a life for