Screen LibraryDown and out in late Meiji Japan /
"A sweeping work of original scholarship, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan examines the daily lives of Japan's hinmin (poor people), particularly urban slum-dwellers, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. James Huffman draws on newspaper articles, official surveys, and reminiscences to recrea...
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University of Hawaiʻi Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Honolulu : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"A sweeping work of original scholarship, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan examines the daily lives of Japan's hinmin (poor people), particularly urban slum-dwellers, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. James Huffman draws on newspaper articles, official surveys, and reminiscences to recreate for readers life as experienced by the poor themselves--something not attempted before in scholarship on this era. He begins by explaining the causes behind the fast-increasing numbers of poor neighborhoods in major cities after the late 1880s and goes on to describe in fascinating detail what those neig |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-339) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780824872915 0824872916 |
| Index Number: | HV4147 |
| CLC: | F131.36-09 |
| Call Number: | F131.36-09/H889 |
| Contents: | The slum setting : moving in and settling down -- Earning a living : making and building things -- Earning a living : movers and servers -- Making a life : at home -- Shadows and storms : endurance -- The sun also shone : embracing life -- Poverty on the farm : a comparative look -- Poverty abroad : Hawaiʻi's sugar fields. |