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Toshié : a story of village life in twentieth-century Japan / Simon Partner.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Partner, Simon, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sakaue, Toshié, 1925-.
- Sakaue, Toshié.
- Rural families--Japan--History--20th century.
- Rural families.
- Villages--Japan--History--20th century.
- Villages.
- Japan--Rural conditions--20th century.
- Japan.
- Yokogoshi-mura (Japan)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Yokogoshi-mura (Japan).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sakaue Toshie was born on August 14, 1925, into a family of tenant farmers and day laborers in the hamlet of Kosugi. The world she entered was one of hard labor, poverty, dirt, disease, and frequent early death. By the 1970's, that rural world had changed almost beyond recognition.
- Contents:
- Figures; Preface; 1 On the Banks of the Agano; 2 The Making of a Japanese Citizen; 3 The Village Goes to War; 4 Rural Life Under the Occupation; 5 Red Carpets and Whisky; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-93775-9
- 1-59734-960-7
- OCLC:
- 56733601
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb04081 hdl
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