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Stranger in the Shogun's City

A Japanese Woman and Her World

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Stranger in the Shogun's City

著者： Amy Stanley
ナレーター： Joy Osmanski
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*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography*
*Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award*
*Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography*

A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo—the city that would become Tokyo—and a portrait of a city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West.

The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces—and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval—she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak.

With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno’s life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture—and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions.

“A compelling story, traced with meticulous detail and told with exquisite sympathy” (The Wall Street Journal), Stranger in the Shogun’s City is “a vivid, polyphonic portrait of life in 19th-century Japan [that] evokes the Shogun era with panache and insight” (National Review of Books). 19世紀 アジア 世界 女性 日本 近代
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"This audiobook blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction as the author illuminates the story of Tsuneno, a young woman who lived in nineteenth-century Japan. Joy Osmanski does a fine job of telling this well-researched story; her voice is measured and reserved, maintaining a steady pace as Tsuneno journeys from birth through a series of marriages. Osmanski offers confident pronunciations and navigates the information-packed text with ease. Her delivery is comfortable with the amount of detail being presented, and her gentle voice moves from chapter to chapter without a hitch. This audiobook is well produced. . . . The devoted listener will likely be enchanted."
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It would have been an excellent book if the author, who came from the US to write this book, had constrated on the heroine's letters, which gives a vivid discrisption of Edo at the first half of the 19th century, people's lives, culture, and women's status in the society. Instead, the author starts to get too emotional by trying to connect her distant ancestor's life with Admiral Perry's and to contemplate how the heroine would have contributed to the society if she had lived longer. The point was that women of this time was supressed and didn't have a voice. The author ruined this main perspective by getting too emotional.

The author got too emotional

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