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Bereavement and Consolation: Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan

Bereavement and Consolation: Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan

Bolitho, Harold

Paperback

Death & DyingGeneral World HistoryJapanese History

ISBN10: 0300204973
ISBN13: 9780300204971
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Aug 30 2013
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Death came early and often to the people of Tokugawa Japan, as it did to the rest of the pre-modern world. Yet the Japanese reaction to death struck foreign observers and later scholars as particularly subdued. In this pioneering study, Harold Bolitho translates and analyzes some extraordinary accounts written by three Japanese men of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries about the death of a loved one-testimonies that challenge the impression that the Japanese accepted their bereavements with nonchalance. The three accounts were written by a young Buddhist priest mourning the death of his child, by the poet Issa, who recorded his father's final illness, and by a scholar and teacher who described his wife's losing struggle with diabetes. Placing their journals in the context of contemporary religious beliefs, customs and literary traditions, Bolitho offers provocative insights into a previously hidden world of Japanese grief.

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