Bereavement and Consolation : Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan /
Death came early and often to the people of Tokugawa Japan, as it did to the rest of the pre-modern world. Yet the Japanese reaction to death struck foreign observers and later scholars as particularly subdued. In this pioneering study, Harold Bolitho translates and analyzes some extraordinary accou...
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2003]
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