Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan
by:
Junichi Saga (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780870117923 (0870117920)
Publish date: February 1st 1987
Publisher: Kodansha America
Pages no: 258
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
Very interesting. Still .....kind of hard to read. You learn for example exactly how one thatched a roof or dyed cloth or arranged different hairstyles. Very detailed. There are chapters about all kinds of people - gangsters to fishermen to teachers to geisha. Such poverty!No health care. Life was h...
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