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Bereavement and Consolation - Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan

By: Harold Bolitho

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Bereavement and Consolation - Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan

By: Harold Bolitho

Death came early and often to the people of Tokugawa Japan, as it did to the rest of the pre-modern world. Yet the Japanese reaction to death struck foreign observers and later scholars as particularly subdued. In this pioneering study, Harold Bolitho translates and analyzes some extraordinary accounts written by three Japanese men of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries about the death of a loved one-testimonies that challenge the impression that the Japanese accepted their bereavements with nonchalance. The three accounts were written by a young Buddhist priest mourning the death of his child, by the poet Issa, who recorded his father's final illness, and by a scholar and teacher who described his wife's losing struggle with diabetes. Placing their journals in the context of contemporary religious beliefs, customs and literary traditions, Bolitho offers provocative insights into a previously hidden world of Japanese grief.

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0300204973

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9780300204971

Bereavement and Consolation

Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan

By: Harold Bolitho

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Bereavement and Consolation

Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan

By: Harold Bolitho

In this study, Harold Bolitho translates and analyzes some accounts written by three Japanese men of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries about the death of a loved one - testimonies which challenge the impression that the Japanese accepted their bereavements with nonchalance. The three journals were written by a young Buddhist priest mourning the death of his child; by the poet Issa, who recorded his father's final illness; and by a scholar and teacher who described his wife's losing struggle with diabetes. They show that while convention may have inhibited the men from expressing their grief openly, they were able to give voice to their sorrow in their writing. The three not only found their losses painful but seemed unable to find consolation: neither the prospect of reunion in Paradise nor any other consideration seems to have given them solace.

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Yale University Press

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0300097980

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9780300097986

They Made America

From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators

By: David Lefer,Gail Buckland,Harold Evans

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They Made America

From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators

By: David Lefer,Gail Buckland,Harold Evans

An illustrated history of American innovators -- some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating -- by the author of the bestselling The American Century.

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Back Bay Books

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0316070343

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9780316070348

Murderabilia

A History of Crime in 100 Objects

By: Harold Schechter

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Murderabilia

A History of Crime in 100 Objects

By: Harold Schechter

From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes a unique look into the history of crime told through the dark objects left behind. The false teeth of a female serial killer from 1908, the cut-and-paste confession of the Black Dahlia killer, the newly cracked cipher of the Zodiac killer, the shotgun used in the Clutter family murders, which were made famous by Truman Capote's true crime classic In Cold Blood—these are more than simple artifacts that once belonged to notorious murderers. They are objets of fascination to the legion of true crime obsessives around the world. And not merely for fleeting dark thrills, but because they represent a way to better understand those who we typically label monsters in lieu of learning how they actually became one. In Murderabilia, veteran true crime writer Harold Schechter presents 100 murder-related artifacts spanning two centuries (1808–2014), with accompanying stories of various lengths. A visual and literary journey, it presents a history unlike any previously told in the true crime genre, one that speaks to the dark fascination of true crime fans while also presenting a larger historical timeline of how and why we continue to be captivated by the most sensational crimes and killers among us.

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Workman Publishing Company

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1523525754

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9781523525751

Meiji Japan

By: Harold Bolitho

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Meiji Japan

By: Harold Bolitho

Describes the modernization of Japan beginning with the 1853 arrival of an American expedition, examining the fall of the Tokugawa regime, the spread of Western technology, and the initiation of new legal and constitutional systems

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Lerner Publishing Group

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082251219X

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9780822512196

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Bereavement and Consolation - Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan

Bereavement and Consolation - Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan

Bereavement and Consolation

Bereavement and Consolation

They Made America

They Made America

Murderabilia

Murderabilia

Meiji Japan

Meiji Japan

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