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Offering a ten-year-old child’s perspective, this guide presents an exploration of Japanese history and the culture of the Edo period.
In the world of eighteenth-century Japan, during the famous Edo period, an orphaned ten-year-old Japanese girl named Noriko lives with her six adopted aunts in a geisha house, one that is a haven for homeless cats. As she grows up, she experiences the well-known arts and spiritual expression of that time period.
Offering a child’s perspective, this guide presents an exploration of Japanese history and the culture of the Edo period. Learn about the rise of the samurai warriors and their leader, the shogun. The time period also witnessed the rise of Kabuki theater, Bunraku puppetry, ukiyo-e painting, the way of tea, and a unique form of poetry called haiku. These arts had a profound effect on Noriko, who practiced both the native religion of Shinto and Buddhism. Noriko become famous for her woodblock prints of cats and flowers and her haiku.
This narrative history invites young readers to get to know a new culture and gain knowledge of the wider world and its history.

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Fiction Jeunesse

Japan

Edo period

History of Japan

Juvenilee Fiction

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Publié par	Archway Publishing
Date de parution	23 février 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781665738644
Langue	English

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Noriko ’s World

Trudy McNair
Copyright © 2023 Trudy McNair.

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Noriko was a ten-year-old orphan who lived in the eighteenth century in Japan during the Edo period. Her parents had died during a terrible plague that swept through the city of Edo (today’s Tokyo).
A prosperous middle class arose during the Edo period. Noriko’s family was part of this middle class.
Noriko’s father had been a successful painter of geisha and Japanese landscapes, such as Mount Fuji.
The Edo period began when Japan was united under the leader Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616). The Edo period lasted from 1603 until 1868.
Tokugawa chose Edo as the seat of his power. By 1693, Edo had a population of about one million people, making it the largest city in the world at the time. (The Japanese emperor remained in the ancient capital of Kyoto.)
The Tokugawa emblem or crest (called a mon in Japan) is the hollyhock. The chrysanthemum is the crest or mon of the emperor of Japan.
After years of warfare, the Edo period was a time of relative peace. It followed the military conflicts of the period before, during which members of the samurai class fought each other for power.
In the twelfth century AD, a new warrior class arose in Japan called the samurai (meaning “to serve”). Also at this time, the title shogun was given to the emperor’s military advisor. The shogun controlled foreign policy and the military, which had greater power than any other group.
Eventually, the samurai became the ruling class, and the shogun replaced the emperor as the ruler of Japan. The shogunate form of government lasted for 676 years and was a form of feudal military dictatorship.