Samurai and Silk

Samurai and Silk
Author: Haru Matsukata Reischauer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1986
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674788015


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This extraordinary family account begins with the author's two illustrious grandfathers: one, a provincial samurai who became a founding father of the Meiji government; the other, a scion of a wealthy and enterprising peasant family who almost single-handedly developed the silk trade with America.


Samurai and Silk
Language: en
Pages: 428
Authors: Haru Matsukata Reischauer
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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This extraordinary family account begins with the author's two illustrious grandfathers: one, a provincial samurai who became a founding father of the Meiji gov
Samurai and Silk
Language: en
Pages: 380
Authors: Haru Matsukata Reischauer
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Women of the Silk
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Gail Tsukiyama
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-01 - Publisher: Macmillan

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In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that re
Memories of Silk and Straw
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Junichi Saga
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Kodansha Amer Incorporated

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Over 50 reminiscences of pre-modern Japan. This book presents an illustrationf a way of life that has virtually disappeared.
Art of the Samurai
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: εŽŸη”°δΈ€ζ•
Categories: Armor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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"This extensively illustrated catalogue is published in conjunction with the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the arts of the samurai, including the fi