Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

by Amy Stanley

Book Overview

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A "captivating" (The Washington Post) work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo--the city that would become Tokyo--and a portrait of a city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West.The daughter of a Buddhist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501188534
• ISBN13: 9781501188534
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"