In the Shelter of the Pine

In the Shelter of the Pine A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan - Translations from the Asian Classics

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In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ogimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave birth to two of his sons. Writing after Yoshiyasu's retirement, she recalled it all - from the glittering formal visits of the shogun and his entourage to the passage of the seasons as seen from her apartments in the Yanagisawa mansion.

Book information

ISBN: 9780231199506
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 895.6332
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xxxvi, 321
Weight: 739g
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 24mm