In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan

Author/Contributor(s):	Rowley, G G
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	06/29/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japan's early modern era.