This week: how do historians learn about the lives of everyday people? Let’s take a look at how it’s done by thinking about a group of people often overlooked in histories of the Edo period even though they made up half the population: women.
Sources
Yonemoto, Marcia. The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan.
Tsunoda, Ryusaku, et al., eds. Sources of Japanese Tradition.
This awesome translation project for the Nansou Satomi Hakkenden.
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