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In this powerful and evocative narrative, Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family over fourteen generations. The first of its kind in English, this book focuses on Isami, the eleventh generation patriarch and hereditary village head. Weaving back and forth between Isami's time in the first half of the twentieth century and his ancestors' lives in the Tokugawa and Meiji eras, Bernstein uses family history to convey a broad panoply of social life in Japan since the late 1600's. As the story unfolds, she provides remarkable details and absorbing anecdotes about food, famines, peasant uprisings, agrarian values, marriage customs, child-rearing practices, divorces, and social networks. Isami's House describes the role of rural elites, the architecture of Japanese homes, the grooming of children for middle-class life in Tokyo, the experiences of the Japanese in Japan's wartime empire and on the homefront, the aftermath of the country's defeat, and, finally, the efforts of family members to rebuild their lives after the Occupation. The author's forty-year friendship with members of the family lends a unique intimacy to her portrayal of their history. Readers come away with an inside view of Japanese family life, a vivid picture of early modern and modern times, and a profound understanding of how villagers were transformed into urbanites and what was gained, and lost, in the process.

Matsuura family. --- Japan --- History --- J2283 --- J4170 --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- genealogy, family biographies --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- family --- HISTORY / Asia / General. --- Matsuura family.. --- Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.. --- Japan -- History -- 1868-. --- 1600s. --- 20th century. --- agrarian values. --- family and culture. --- family generations. --- family historians. --- family history. --- genealogy. --- hereditary lines. --- isami. --- japan. --- japanese ancestry. --- japanese culture. --- japanese families. --- japanese family life. --- japanese history. --- marriage customs. --- meiji era. --- middle class life. --- multigenerational. --- nonfiction. --- retrospective. --- social life. --- social networks. --- tokugawa era. --- tokyo. --- traditional families. --- urbanization. --- village leaders. --- wartime japan.

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Dit boek daagt de lezer uit om Azië en Aziaten te zien zoals ze echt zijn, met een heldere, ongeërotiseerde ogen. Het onthult de wortels van de Westerse fantasieën in de seksueel beladen geschiedenis van het oost-west-contact, het onderzoekt de Hollywoodbeelden van de Drakenvrouw, Dominatrix, het Geishameisje, Suzie Wong en anderen, de verwachtingen die deze beelden creëren en waarom ze standhouden. Het boek verscheurt de stereotype beelden van Aziatische mannen als ontmand en aseksueel en het onderzoekt het fenomeen van 'Yellow Fever' en het onderliggende racisme en andere sociale factoren die het bevoorraden. De lezer krijgt een reality tour langs Aziatische go-gobars, campussen, zakendistricten en de wandelgangen van de macht, van Japan naar China, van Indonesië naar Burma en bijna elk land er tussen. Ze vertelt het echte, menselijke verhaal achter de beelden van brave huisvrouwen, attente hostesses, slaafse geisha's, exotische Cathay meisjes, onbuigzame gevechtsmeesteressen en de meedogenloze vrouwelijke heersers van Azië.

East and West --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) --- Women --- J4129 --- J4172 --- J4188 --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Mental stereotypes --- Stereotype (Psychology) --- Stereotyping (Social psychology) --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Rigidity (Psychology) --- Civilization, Western --- Civilization, Oriental --- Occident and Orient --- Orient and Occident --- West and East --- Eastern question --- Public opinion --- Social conditions --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cross-cultural contacts, contrasts and globalization --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- family and interpersonal relations -- sex relations (identity, preference, community, customs and culture) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- night-time entertainment, mizu shōbai, geisha, hostess, mama-san --- Asian influences --- Oriental influences --- Western influences --- Asia --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Foreign public opinion, Occidental. --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Far East --- Movies --- Sex industry --- Stereotypes --- Images of women --- Book --- Imaging