Toshie: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan
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Sakaue Toshi? was born on August 14, 1925, into a family of tenant farmers and day laborers in the hamlet of Kosugi. The world she entered was one of hard labor, poverty, dirt, disease, and frequent early death. By the 1970s, that rural world had changed almost beyond recognition. Toshi? is the story of that extraordinary transformation as witnessed and experienced by Toshi? herself. A sweeping social history of the Japanese countryside in...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520240979
ISBN13:9780520240971
Release Date:March 2004
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:195 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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