Kokichi Katsu (1802–1850)
Autor de Musui's Story-The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
Obras de Kokichi Katsu
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- 勝, 小吉
- Otros nombres
- Otani, Kokichi
Musui - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1802
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1850
- Género
- male
- País (para mapa)
- Japan
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Edo, Japan
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Edo, Japan
- Lugares de residencia
- Edo, Japan
- Ocupaciones
- Pawn Broker
Landlord
Bodyguard
Usurer - Relaciones
- Otani, Heizo (father)
Otani, Hikoshiro (half-brother)
Katsu, Nobuko (spouse)
Katsu, Kaishū (son)
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 8
- Popularidad
- #1,038,911
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 1
Katsu Kokichi (1802-1850) was a low-ranking smaurai who lived during the last decades of the Tokugawa period of Japan. Upon his retirement he wrote an autobiography that offers modern readers a richly detailed account of daily life in Edo during the early nineteenth century.
'(T)his charming book...portrays Tokugawa socienty as it was actually lived, instead of as it was portrayed in moralizing tracts and governmental ordinances. Attractively translated by Teruko Craig, it depicts the life of a man born into a family with the hereditary privilege of audience with the shogun, yet he shamelessly consorted with the riffraff of Edo, ran a protection racket, lied, cheated, and stole...Anyone interested in Japanese history and society or in how people interact with each other in whatever age or place will enjoy reading this book.'-Mounmenta Nipponica
'...a lively revelation of the world of brawls, gangsterism, and petty swindling behind the formal facade of nineteenth-century Japanese society. M. Craig's introduction and notes are excellent, as are the maps and illustrations supporting the text.'-The Atlantic
'Fruit from an esoteric branch of literature, to be sure, but also a colorful, involving glimpse of the gritty side of a distinctly foreign culture.'-Kirkus Review
Cover Kinokuni Hill and Distant View of Akasaka Tameike, by Ando Hiroshige Courtesy, The Brooklyn Museum.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
Childhood
I run away
Youth
I run away again
Adult years
Life after retirement
Some other incidents
Reflections on my life
Notes to the translation
Appendix One: Geneaology of Katsu Kokichi
Appendix Two: Currency in the Tokugawa Period
Bibliography
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