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Memories Of Silk And Straw: A Selfportrait Of Smalltown Japan
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Over 50 Reminiscences Of Premodern Japanillustrations Of A Way Of Life That Has Virtually Disappeared. Voted Best Book Of The Year By Japan'S Foreign Press.This Is A Collective Biography, Based On Interviews Taped By A Smalltown Doctor, Recording The Lives Of A Cotton Dyer, Blacksmith, Tofu Maker, Undertaker, Carter, Tenant Farmer, Local Gangster, Casual Laborer, Horsemeat Butcher, Magistrate'S Wife, Apprentice Geisha, Rice Merchant, Thatcher, Carpenter, Midwife, County Hangman, Pawnbroker, Draper, Fisherman, Hairdresser, Servant, Charcoal Burner, And So Onover Fifty In All. Their Memories Are All Related To A Lakeside Town And Its Rural Suburbs Northeast Of Tokyo.Born In The Early Years Of This Century, These People Have Both Seen The Old Japan And Lived Through The Changes Brought About By Modernization And The Onset Of Affluence. In A Real Sense, They Provide The Sole Surviving Links With A Feudal Way Of Life And Its Attitudes Which Have Altered, In The Space Of Fifty Years Or So, Beyond Recognition.Through Plainspoken Anecdotetheir Voices By Turns Amused, Nostalgic, Disturbing But Unsensationalthey Describe Their Youth In A Tougher World Where Poverty Was Commonplace, Where Unwanted Children Were Sometimes Thinned Out'' At Birth, Where Poorer Families Cooked Outofdoors And Fishermen In Summer Went Almost Naked. By Saving Their Memories For Posterity, The Author Hoped To Close, Just A Fraction, The Gap In Perception Between A Traditional Past And The Japan We Know Today. The Resultas The Distinguished Anthropologist, Ronald Dore, Says In His Prefaceis A Book To Savor, And A Book To Learn From.These Reminiscences Are Accompanied By Illustrations Painted By The Author'S Father, Dr. Susumu Sagathemselves A Record Of An Old Man'S Past.
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