Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth Century Japan, by Amy Stanley
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A professor of history at Northwestern University, Stanley introduces the vibrant social and cultural life of early nineteenth-century Japan through the story of an irrepressible woman named Tsuneno, who defied convention to make a life for herself in the big city of Edo (now Tokyo) in the decades before the arrival of Commodore Perry and the fall of the shogunate.