This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: what was life in the Edo period like? We cover everything from food to school to entertainment as we talk through daily life in Tokugawa-ruled Japan.
Sources
Nishiyama, Matsunosuke. Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868. trans. Gerald Groemer.
Nakai, Nobuhiko, “Commercial Change and Urban Growth in Early Modern Japan” and Shively, Donald H. “Popular Culture” in The Cambridge History of Japan: Vol IV: Early Modern Japan
Teeuwen, Mark, and Kate Wildman Nakai, eds. Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I have Seen and Heard
Craig, Teruko, trans. Musui’s Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
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