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When I Was a Boy in Japan - Softcover

Shioya, Sakae

 
9781609622466: When I Was a Boy in Japan
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1609622464 ISBN 13: 9781609622466
Publisher: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, 2022

Synopsis

Japanese children in the 1870s and 1880s were offspring of a centuries-old traditional order who faced a world suddenly dominated by foreign science and commerce. As a child in Meiji Japan, Sakae grew up among survivors of the shogunate and observed their samurai culture displaced by Western morals and practices. Meanwhile the traditional values of Japanese life still exerted a strong influence over his family and education and played a large part in shaping his experience, as recounted with charm and tenderness in this simple and reflective reminiscence. Cover: Toyohara Chikanobu, Mother and Child (1900)

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About the Author

Sakae Shioya (1873-1961) attended Tokyo's First Imperial College and came to the United States in 1901. He earned an M.A. degree from the University of Chicago in 1903 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1906, both in English. He translated works by contemporary Japanese writers, including Rohan Koda and Kenjiro Tokutomi. In addition to this childhood memoir published in 1906, his later works included Chushingura: An Exposition (1940).

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Publisher
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1609622464
ISBN 13 
9781609622466
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
104