TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - The budding tree :six stories of love in Edo /
DA  - 2008.
CY  - Champaign, Ill. :
AU  - Kitahara, Aiko,
AU  - MacDonald, Ian McCullough.
CN  - PL855.I6747
CN  - PL855.I6747
PB  - Dalkey Archive Press,
PP  - Champaign, Ill. :
LA  - eng
LA  - Translated from the Japanese.
PY  - 2008.
N1  - "Originally published in Japanese as Koiwasuregusa by Bungei Shunju, Tokyo"--T.p. verso.
ID  - 349741
KW  - Women
SN  - 9781564784896 (alk. paper)
SN  - 1564784894 (alk. paper)
TI  - The budding tree :six stories of love in Edo /
LK  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0721/2007026628.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0721/2007026628.html
ER  -