01138mam a2200145 a 4500008004100000020001800041100002800059245013900087260005400226300003900280520043100319520019700750700002100947050002400968960624s1997    hiuabg   b   s001 0 eng    a97808248185001 aNishiyama, Matsunosuke,10aEdo culture :bdaily life and diversions in urban Japan, 1600-1868 /cNishiyama Matsunosuke ; translated and edited by Gerald Groemer.  aHonolulu :bUniversity of Hawaiʻi Press,cc1997.  avii, 309 p. :bill., maps, music ;  aNishiyama Matsunosuke is one of the most important historians of Tokugawa (Edo) popular culture, yet until now his work has never been translated into a Western language. Edo Culture presents a selection of Nishiyama's writings that serves not only to provide an excellent introduction to Tokugawa cultural history but also to fill many gaps in our knowledge of the daily life and diversions of the urban populace of the time.8 aMany essays focus on the most important theme of Nishiyama's work: the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries as a time of appropriation and development of Japan's culture by its urban commoners.1 aGroemer, Gerald,00aDS822.2b.N558 1997