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Summary
portrays Tokugawa society as it actually lived, instead of as it was portrayed in moralization tracts and governmental ordinances. depeicts the life of a man born into a family with the heredity privelege of audience with the shogun, yet he shamelessly consorted with the rifraff of Edo, ran a protection racket, lied, cheated and stole.
Title
Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
Author
Kokichi, Katsu
Publisher
The University of Arizona Press
Date
1988
Object ID
2006.038.175