What Is a Family?

What is a family? The essays gathered here explore disparate family histories in early modern Japan, attending variously to the samurai elite, agrarian villagers, urban merchants, communities of outcastes, and the circles surrounding priests, artists, and scholars. They draw on diverse sources—from...

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Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	University of California Press 2021
Subjects:	early modern Japan Tokugawa family stem family marriage succession demography inheritance population fiction drama thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
Online Access:	1005410
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