@article{349741,
      note = {"Originally published in Japanese as Koiwasuregusa by  Bungei Shunju, Tokyo"--T.p. verso.},
      author = {Kitahara, Aiko, and MacDonald, Ian McCullough.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/349741},
      title = {The budding tree : six stories of love in Edo /},
      publisher = {Dalkey Archive Press,},
      abstract = {In the latter half of the Edo period, the warrior caste  was finding itself pushed out of the top echelons of  Japanese society & repeated famines swept the countryside.  Against this backdrop, a small number of women built  themselves independent lives. The stories in this book  recount the conditions in which these women lived.},
      recid = {349741},
      pages = {170 p. ;},
      address = {Champaign, Ill. :},
      year = {2008},
}