01198mam a2200169 a 4500 960624s1997 hiuabg b s001 0 eng 9780824818500 Nishiyama, Matsunosuke, 5970 Edo culture : daily life and diversions in urban Japan, 1600-1868 / Nishiyama Matsunosuke ; translated and edited by Gerald Groemer. Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c1997. vii, 309 p. : ill., maps, music ; Nishiyama 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. Many 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. Groemer, Gerald, 5971 BK DS822.2 .N558 1997 29354 29354 0 0 lcc 0 0 FIC MAIN MAIN OOER 2014-01-28 GFT 0 DS 822.2 .N558 1997 0034740 2014-01-28 00:00:00 1 2014-01-28 BK