Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World By Amy Stanley

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*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo—the city that would become Tokyo—and a portrait of a city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West.The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces—and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval—she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno’s life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture—and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions. “A compelling story, traced with meticulous detail and told with exquisite sympathy” (The Wall Street Journal), Stranger in the Shogun’s City is “a vivid, polyphonic portrait of life in 19th-century Japan [that] evokes the Shogun era with panache and insight” (National Review of Books).

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This really is a charming piece of historical writing. The author discovered a trove of family documents, and pieced together the story of Tsuneno, a mildly rebellious women from the late Edo period. The documents are incomplete and, to her credit, the author does not make anything up. Thus, for example, we are not told what our heroine looked like, because no one knows. Alas, the result is that the personal story of Tsuneno is only only partially compelling. On the other hand, the descriptions of rural Japanese life, and of Edo (Tokyo) itself, are splendid, sometimes even poetical. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in Tokugawa-era Japan.

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