The Soil: A Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan (Voices from Asia)

Nagatsuka, Takashi

ISBN 10: 0520083725 / ISBN 13: 9780520083721

Published by University of California Press, 1993

About this Item

203 pages, translated and with an Introduction by Ann Waswo. Crease across the spine, light edge soiling and wear, some creased page corners.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Soil: A Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan (Voices from Asia)
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520083725
• ISBN 13: 9780520083721
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthropology

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Synopsis

Nagatsuka Takashi's novel The Soil, published in Japan in 1910, provides a moving and sensitive but unsentimental portrait of rural peasant life in Japan during the Meiji era. The community described is the author's native place, and the characters whose lives are described in vivid detail over a period of years are drawn from life.

About the Author

Ann Waswo is University Lecturer in Modern Japanese History at the University of Oxford. A Fellow of St. Antony's College, she is the author of Japanese Landlords: The Decline of a Rural Elite (California, 1977).