Koume's World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration

by Simon Partner

Kawai Koume (1804-1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in the provincial castle town of Wakayama. She was an eyewitness to many of the key events leading up to the Meiji Restoration and the radical changes that followed, including the famine of 1837, the great earthquake of 1854, the cholera epidemic of 1859, and the departure of samurai to fight in the civil wars of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231211848
• ISBN13: 9780231211840
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"