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Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture
Susan B. Hanley
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| #913709 in Books | 1999-06-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.78 | File type: PDF | 227 pages||26 of 26 people found the following review helpful.| More than its title implies|By Samuel Leiter|Despite its popular-sounding title, this is a serious scholarly examination of the life of the Japanese during the Edo or Tokugawa period (1863-67/68), focusing on the society's material culture in order to gauge the people's physical well-being relative to that of people in the West. We learn that the premodern Japanese were in nu||"The book provides . . . a wealth of ideas and information. . . . For those of us who are fascinated to discover how houses were built, clothes washed and mended, food prepared, or 'night soil' disposed of, she has written a book that is hard to put down."--Pe
Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. In an innovative discussion that posits the importance of physical well-being as a key indicator of living standards, Susan B. Hanley considers daily life in the three centuries leading up to the modern era in Japan. She concludes that people lived much better than has been previously understood&m...
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