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An Imperial Concubine’s Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan

by Site Owner | May 21, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History

Life in Imperial Japan By G.G. Rowley Columbia University Press, $40.00, 255 pages The 17th century was a time of turmoil in Imperial Japan, but also a time of great peace. It brought an end to wars that had ravaged the countryside for years and gave...

An Imperial Concubine’s Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan

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