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Samurai and silk : a Japanese and American heritage
Reischauer, wife of a noted Japanese historian and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, tells the story of her two grandfathers: the famous Meiji statesman Matsukata Masayoshi, whose stringent financial policies are credited with steering Japan safely through its first economic crisis, and Arai Rioichir...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, MA :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1986.
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Reischauer, wife of a noted Japanese historian and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, tells the story of her two grandfathers: the famous Meiji statesman Matsukata Masayoshi, whose stringent financial policies are credited with steering Japan safely through its first economic crisis, and Arai Rioichiro, who helped develop Japan's silk exports to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Their lives, inextricably interwoven with modern Japanese history, are vividly presented, along with fascinating glimpses of the family life of Japan's upper class in this period. |
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Includes index. |
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ix, 371 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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0674788001 9780674788008 9780674788015 067478801X 0312280092 9780312280093 |