Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai by John Breen, Mark Teeuwen, Fumiko Miyazaki, Kate Wildman Nakai, Anne Walthall

Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai

John Breen, Mark Teeuwen, Fumiko Miyazaki, Kate Wildman Nakai, Anne Walthall

496 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

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By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed to be approaching a new period of growth. The idea that the shoguna...

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