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Seishitsu (正室) is the Japanese term of the Edo period for the official wife of high-ranking persons. The tennō, kugyō (court officials), shōgun and daimyōs often had several wives to ensure the birth of an heir. The seishitsu had a status above other wives, called sokushitsu (側室, concubine).
Sparkling Rain: and other fiction from Japan of women who love women is an English-language anthology of short stories from Japanese lesbian or bisexual women, edited by Barbara Summerhawk and Kimberly Hughes. It also includes essays about the history of Japanese lesbian literature.
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is a 2018 English language anthology of Japanese literature edited by American translator Jay Rubin and published by Penguin Classics. With 34 stories, the collection spans centuries of short stories from Japan ranging from the early-twentieth-century works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Jun'ichirō ...
Setsuko unsuccessfully studied English to talk to Lafcadio. [18] Setsuko, however, correctly understood Lafcadio's broken Japanese, called "Herun-san Kotoba" (Hearn-speak) in their family, and the couple communicated with each other. [19] In 1893, their first son Kazuo was born. [17] In 1894, the couple moved to Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture. [17]
"Wedding." From the book Japan and Japanese (1902), p. 62. "Japanese at home." From the book Japan and Japanese (1902), p. 71. They are celebrating Girl's Day. In pre-modern Japan, marriage was inextricable from the ie (家, 'family' or 'household'), the basic unit of society with a collective continuity independent of any individual life.
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Chris Broad (born 21 April 1990), also known online as Abroad in Japan, is an English YouTuber, filmmaker, podcast host, author, and former Assistant Language Teacher. He focuses on creating videos about Japanese culture , Japanese food , and travel in Japan , primarily in the Tōhoku region .
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