LEADER 04752nam 22009974a 450 001 9910783670903321 005 20231006200850.0 010 $a9786612358333 010 $a1-4237-3149-2 010 $a1-282-35833-2 010 $a0-520-93942-5 010 $a1-59875-802-0 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520939424 035 $a(CKB)1000000000246838 035 $a(EBL)240964 035 $a(OCoLC)62196212 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000280997 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11239059 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280997 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10300953 035 $a(PQKB)11285897 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC240964 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30646 035 $a(DE-B1597)520247 035 $a(OCoLC)1109284452 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520939424 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL240964 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10091272 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235833 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000246838 100 $a20050302d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIsami's house$b[electronic resource] $ethree centuries of a Japanese family /$fGail Lee Bernstein 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$dc2005. 215 $a1 online resource (334 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-23974-1 311 $a0-520-24697-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-267) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPrologue: history revealed --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes on conventions --$tTime Line --$tCentral persons --$tIntroduction: An Agrarian Childhood --$tPART ONE. ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS --$tPART TWO. GOING OUT INTO THE WORLD --$tPART THREE. EMPIRE,WAR, AND DEFEAT --$tPART FOUR, LOVE AND OTHER FORMS OF COMPENSATION --$tEPILOGUE. KIN WORK --$tNOTES --$tINDEX 330 $aIn 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. 607 $aJapan$xHistory$yTokugawa period, 1600-1868 607 $aJapan$xHistory$y1868- 610 $a1600s. 610 $a20th century. 610 $aagrarian values. 610 $afamily and culture. 610 $afamily generations. 610 $afamily historians. 610 $afamily history. 610 $agenealogy. 610 $ahereditary lines. 610 $aisami. 610 $ajapan. 610 $ajapanese ancestry. 610 $ajapanese culture. 610 $ajapanese families. 610 $ajapanese family life. 610 $ajapanese history. 610 $amarriage customs. 610 $ameiji era. 610 $amiddle class life. 610 $amultigenerational. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $aretrospective. 610 $asocial life. 610 $asocial networks. 610 $atokugawa era. 610 $atokyo. 610 $atraditional families. 610 $aurbanization. 610 $avillage leaders. 610 $awartime japan. 676 $a929/.2/0952 700 $aBernstein$b Gail Lee$01004130 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783670903321 996 $aIsami's house$93860658 997 $aUNINA