Stranger in the Shogun's City by Amy Stanley review – a woman's life in 19th-century Japan

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Forget the tea ceremonies and geishas. This is a vivid examination of the life of an ordinary if much-married woman

Enjoying a garden in Omia, Japan, c1877. Photograph: Felice Beato/Royal Photographic Society/SSPL/Getty Imagesn 1839 a priest’s daughter called Tsuneno ran away from her village in Echigo, otherwise known as the Snow Country of north-central Japan. Her destination was Edo, the shogun’s city, which she had longed to see from the moment she first heard of its existence. The journey took two weeks and involved a treacherous mountain trek, but to Tsuneno it was worth it.

 

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