Mary Elizabeth Berry is Professor of History Emerita at
the University of California, Berkeley. Her books
include Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early
Modern Period.
Marcia Yonemoto is Professor of History at the
University of Colorado Boulder. Her books include The Problem
of Women in Early Modern Japan.
"[P]articular highlights include Amy Stanley's fascinating
explication of kimono textiles and personal ornaments as often
neglected repositories of value, and Luke Roberts's examination of
governmental and familial responses to a murder case brought
against a provincial samurai matriarch."
*CHOICE*
"The editors and authors are to be applauded for the depth, scope,
and thematic and methodological range of this volume."
*Journal of Interdisciplinary History*
"What is particularly impressive about this volume is the
meticulous and skilled handling of primary documentary sources,
often in the form of raw unpublished archives, and the
methodological rigor that the contributors bring to their essays.
Considered together, they offer a nuanced perspective on the
domestic lives of the people who lived through what we call early
modern Japan."
*Journal of Japanese Studies*
"What Is a Family? Answers from Early Modern Japan fills a glaring
gap in the historiography of early modern Japan. . . .The book is
clear in its concern to cover different social categories and not
to fall into the trap of giving a reductive image of the family
under the Tokugawa, making it indisputably obligatory reading for
all researchers and students interested in the history of the
family."
*Monumenta Nipponica*
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