Toshie: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan

by Simon Partner

Book Overview

Sakaue Toshi? was born on August 14, 1925, into a family of tenant farmers and day laborers in the hamlet of Kosugi. The world she entered was one of hard labor, poverty, dirt, disease, and frequent early death. By the 1970s, that rural world had changed almost beyond recognition. Toshi? is the story of that extraordinary transformation as witnessed and experienced by Toshi? herself. A sweeping social history of the Japanese countryside in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520240979
• ISBN13: 9780520240971
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"