<p>Interviews with a blacksmith, cotton dyer, undertaker, farmer, butcher, geisha, carpenter, hangman, midwife, and fisherman document life in a small Japanese town during the early part of this century</p>

Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan

History

SAGA, Junichi

Asia

Kodansha USA Inc

MEMOIRES DE PAILLE ET DE SOIE

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

PICQUIER

The Gambler's Tale: A Life in Japan's Underworld

Memories of Wind and Waves gathers the richly detailed stories of thirty-three elderly men and women who spent their lives working on or around Japan's second-largest lake, Kasumigaura. Though just forty miles from Tokyo, the area was throughout much of the twentieth century very rural and poor - a world away from the capital that we know today. Many people tell of working late into each night in a struggle to survive, supplementing their main livelihood from fishing with a bit of farming or other work. Yet these are people who lived so close to nature - in some cases literally on the lake - that a great many of their reminiscences are not about hardship but about just how beautiful the place was.

Memories of Wind and Waves: A Self-Portrait of Lakeside Japan

Kodansha Amer Inc

Memorias de un yakuza

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

ALTAIR

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