@article{776098,
      recid = {776098},
      author = {Isoda, Michifumi, and Carpenter, Juliet Winters,},
      title = {Unsung heroes of old Japan /},
      pages = {207 pages ;},
      abstract = {"True stories of three little-known Japanese of the Edo  period who lived lives of sublime selflessness and purity,  blurring the boundary between self and others. Merchant  Kokudaya Jūzaburō comes up with a brilliant scheme to  rescue his dying town from poverty. He and others go deep  into debt, risking all to raise money for the cash-strapped  daimyo and receive annual interest in return. Prodigious  scholar and former Zen monk Nakane Tōri refuses a  government post and elects to live in abject poverty,  weaving sandals. Though perhaps the age's greatest poet, he  throws his works into the fire and ends his days teaching  in a country village. Ōtagaki Rengetsu, a noted beauty in  Kyoto, loses two husbands and five children. She becomes a  Buddhist nun and devotes her life to poetry and pottery.  With her savings she feeds the hungry and builds a bridge  across Kamo River"--Publisher's website.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/776098},
}