What Is a Family?

Mary Elizabeth Berry

Mary Elizabeth Berry is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period.

Marcia Yonemoto is Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her books include The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan.

 

• adoption
• archives
• class
• early modern japan
• family
• family order
• family structure
• gender
• heirs
• history
• household
• infidelity
• japan
• japanese history
• kimono
• legal system
• literature
• merchant
• murder
• nonfiction
• outcast
• parenting
• peasant
• privilege
• relationships
• samurai
• social hierarchy
• social history
• social order
• tokugawa
• trial
• true crime