Stranger in the Shogun's City : A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan Sophie Mackintosh THE AVENGERS

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Stranger in the Shogun's City : A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan Sophie Mackintosh THE AVENGERSA vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo now known as Tokyo and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous changeThe daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a life much like her mothers. But after three divorces and with a temperament much too strong willed for her familys approval she ran away to make a life for