Peasant Uprisings in Japan: A Critical Anthology of Peasant Histories / Edition 1

by Anne Walthall

Overview

Combining translations of five peasant narratives with critical commentary on their provenance and implications for historical study, this book illuminates the life of the peasantry in Tokugawa Japan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226872346
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	12/15/1991
Series:	Wildlife Behavior and Ecology Ser.
Edition description:	1
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Sakura Sogoro Story
2. A Record of How the Four Orders of People in Mimasaka Ran Riot
3. A Thousant Spears at Kitsunezuka
4. A Tale of a Dream from the Fox Woman Plain
5. A Tale Told in a Dream of a Eulogy to Filial Piety
6. Rereading Peasant Histories of Peasant Uprisings
Notes
Index