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Budding Tree: Six Stories of Love in edo (Japanese Literature Series) (en Inglés)
Aiko Kitahara (Autor)
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Dalkey Archive Pr
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Budding Tree: Six Stories of Love in edo (Japanese Literature Series) (en Inglés) - Aiko Kitahara
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Reseña del libro "Budding Tree: Six Stories of Love in edo (Japanese Literature Series) (en Inglés)"
This Naoki Prizewinning work is a personal yet precise account of the lives of working women in the Edo period (16001868).In the latter half of the Edo period, the warrior caste was finding itself pushed out of the top echelons of society by the rising merchant class, and repeated famines swept the countryside. Against this backdrop, a small number of women vigorously built themselves independent lives with unusual careers--working as designers of ornamental hairpins, or even scribes--in the male-dominated society of the day. The stories in The Budding Tree recount the conditions in which these women lived."Japanese author Kitahara depicts in these six tales the plight of single women struggling for success in early-to-mid-19th-century Japan. These young women protagonists are gifted artists or fledgling entrepreneurs who have lost the protection of men, either by the death of fathers or divorce from husbands, and dare to make a name on their own, often with dire consequences. In the title story, owner Okaji is struggling to keep her new restaurant, Moegi ('the budding tree'), afloat despite a famine and competition from her ex-husbands more established restaurant. In 'Loves Chill Wind,' a schoolteacher resolves to maintain a school her deceased father founded. Moreover, these proto-feminists have to fend off pesky matchmakers and importunate advances by hardly well-meaning suitors, such as the married man in 'Innocent in Love,' who seduces out of spite his childhood friend, now a successful designer of ornamental hairpins. Kitahara also elegantly portrays the dilemma of the young Oichi in 'Forget-Me-Not,' who must make a painful compromise in love for the sake of her art. The timeless conflicts of Kitaharas characters will resonate with todays readers."Publishers Weekly
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