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An Imperial Concubine's Tale : Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan / G. Rowley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) : ‹B›11 color illus, 3 maps, 1 chart‹/B›Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231158541
  • 9780231530873
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 952/.025092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • DS872.N35 R68 2013
  • DS872.N35 R68 2013
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Courtier's Life, in and out of the World -- Chapter 2. The Year 1600: A World Again at War -- Chapter 3. At the Court of the Dragon -- Chapter 4. Scandal -- Chapter 5. The Tale of Kazan -- Chapter 6. Shipwreck -- Chapter 7. The Long Reprieve -- Chapter 8 Salvation -- Epilogue -- Principal Characters -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place. Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night, while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace, drinking saké and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the emperor's principal consort. Among these noblewomen was an imperial concubine named Nakanoin Nakako, who in 1609 became embroiled in a sex scandal involving both courtiers and young women in the emperor's service. As punishment, Nakako was banished to an island in the Pacific Ocean, but she never reached her destination. Instead, she was shipwrecked and spent fourteen years in a remote village on the Izu Peninsula before she was finally allowed to return to Kyoto. In 1641, Nakako began a new adventure: she entered a convent and became a Buddhist nun.Recounting the remarkable story of this resilient woman and her war-torn world, G. G. Rowley investigates aristocratic family archives, village storehouses, and the records of imperial convents. She follows the banished concubine as she endures rural exile, receives an unexpected reprieve, and rediscovers herself as the abbess of a nunnery. While unraveling Nakako's unusual tale, Rowley also reveals the little-known lives of samurai women who sacrificed themselves on the fringes of the great battles that brought an end to more than a century of civil war. Written with keen insight and genuine affection, An Imperial Concubine's Tale tells the true story of a woman's extraordinary life in seventeenth-century Japan.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Courtier's Life, in and out of the World -- Chapter 2. The Year 1600: A World Again at War -- Chapter 3. At the Court of the Dragon -- Chapter 4. Scandal -- Chapter 5. The Tale of Kazan -- Chapter 6. Shipwreck -- Chapter 7. The Long Reprieve -- Chapter 8 Salvation -- Epilogue -- Principal Characters -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place. Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night, while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace, drinking saké and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the emperor's principal consort. Among these noblewomen was an imperial concubine named Nakanoin Nakako, who in 1609 became embroiled in a sex scandal involving both courtiers and young women in the emperor's service. As punishment, Nakako was banished to an island in the Pacific Ocean, but she never reached her destination. Instead, she was shipwrecked and spent fourteen years in a remote village on the Izu Peninsula before she was finally allowed to return to Kyoto. In 1641, Nakako began a new adventure: she entered a convent and became a Buddhist nun.Recounting the remarkable story of this resilient woman and her war-torn world, G. G. Rowley investigates aristocratic family archives, village storehouses, and the records of imperial convents. She follows the banished concubine as she endures rural exile, receives an unexpected reprieve, and rediscovers herself as the abbess of a nunnery. While unraveling Nakako's unusual tale, Rowley also reveals the little-known lives of samurai women who sacrificed themselves on the fringes of the great battles that brought an end to more than a century of civil war. Written with keen insight and genuine affection, An Imperial Concubine's Tale tells the true story of a woman's extraordinary life in seventeenth-century Japan.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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