1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000556490403321

Autore

OMAE

Titolo

16th International conference on offshore mechanics and artic engineering . Proceedings of OMAE 1997. Yokohama , April13-17 1997 / Subrata Chakrabarti , T. Kinoshita , Hisaki Maeda , C. Erktin (eds) , [ OMAE ]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : ASME, 1997

ISBN

0 7918 1799 7

Descrizione fisica

v , 28 cm, p.

Locazione

DININ

Collocazione

05 66 189

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910449894103321

Autore

Bernstein Gail Lee

Titolo

Isami's house [[electronic resource] ] : three centuries of a Japanese family / / Gail Lee Bernstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005

ISBN

9786612358333

1-4237-3149-2

1-282-35833-2

0-520-93942-5

1-59875-802-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Disciplina

929/.2/0952

Soggetti

HISTORY / Asia / General

Electronic books.

Japan History Tokugawa period, 1600-1868

Japan History 1868-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue: history revealed -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on conventions -- Time Line -- Central persons -- Introduction: An Agrarian Childhood -- PART ONE. ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS -- PART TWO. GOING OUT INTO THE WORLD -- PART THREE. EMPIRE,WAR, AND DEFEAT -- PART FOUR, LOVE AND OTHER FORMS OF COMPENSATION -- EPILOGUE. KIN WORK -- NOTES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In this powerful and evocative narrative, Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family over fourteen generations. The first of its kind in English, this book focuses on Isami, the eleventh generation patriarch and hereditary village head. Weaving back and forth between Isami's time in the first half of the twentieth century and his ancestors' lives in the Tokugawa and Meiji eras, Bernstein uses family history to convey a broad panoply of social life in Japan since the late 1600's. As the story unfolds, she provides remarkable details and



absorbing anecdotes about food, famines, peasant uprisings, agrarian values, marriage customs, child-rearing practices, divorces, and social networks. Isami's House describes the role of rural elites, the architecture of Japanese homes, the grooming of children for middle-class life in Tokyo, the experiences of the Japanese in Japan's wartime empire and on the homefront, the aftermath of the country's defeat, and, finally, the efforts of family members to rebuild their lives after the Occupation. The author's forty-year friendship with members of the family lends a unique intimacy to her portrayal of their history. Readers come away with an inside view of Japanese family life, a vivid picture of early modern and modern times, and a profound understanding of how villagers were transformed into urbanites and what was gained, and lost, in the process.