...David W. Plath The Women of Suye Mura . By Robert J. Smith and Ella Lury Wiswell . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1983 . xxxvi, 293 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $20 (cloth), $7.50 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN...

... and in-group feeling beyond the level of the household. It is within the buraku that the Japanese farmers cooperate with each other to meet and to solve their immediate problem. The lowest level of formal government in the farming countryside is the mura or son (village). It is at this point of contact...

... of those less fortunate than himself, and of the people among whom he worked. In the post-war years he was still remembered with neighborly affection and with pride as in a native son by the people of Suye Mura. In southeast Asia, though his situation was often less conducive to easy personal relationships...

... approximate figures: 2 Yamagishi Mura Shinshirō Tomura Monjo, Shussen Kitte , Kammon II (1671) and Manji I (1658). 3 Wakabayashi, p. 117; Seiki Kaburaki , Zeniya Gohei no Kenkyū ( Kanazawa , 1953 ), pp. 164 , 166 ; Koshizaki, p. 13. 4 Sato Mura Tarozaemon Tomura...

... (The Organization of a Mountain Village) (Tokyo, 1949 ). 15 Nōson no Seikatsu: Okayama-ken Oku-gun Kasaka-mura Kitaike (Farm Village Life: Kitaike, Kasaka Village, Oku County, Okayama Prefecture) (Okayama, 1951 ). 16 Nihon Nōson no Shakaiteki Seikaku (Social Characteristics of Japanese...

... of the establishment of the Meiji local system]. Tokyo : Haku Shobo . Samon Kinbara , 1985 . “Ie to mura to kokka no ideologii” [Ideology of Household, Village and Nation]. In ed. Kenkyūkai Rekishigaku and Kenkyūkai Nihonshi , Kōza Nihon Rekishi vol. 8 . Tokyo : Tokyo Daigaku shuppankai...

... no Sonraku Kyōdōtai [Village Community in Japan] ( Tokyo , 1957 ), pp. 108 – 112 . 27 Kaoru Nakata , “ Tokugawa jidai ni okeru mura no jinkaku ,” [The Personality of the Village in Tokugawa Period], Hōseishi Ronsō , II ( 1938 ), 963 – 990 . 28 For specimens of village...

... the tension that sustained the separation, drawing Japan closer to the European experience, in which the power of governance determined the authority to govern. The Tokugawa bakufu restored the central administrative state, but legal controls, the author points out, did not penetrate to the mura (village...

... University of Cambridge Remembering Paradise: Nativism and Nostalgia in Eighteenth-Century Japan. By PETER N O S C O . Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1990. xv, 271 pp. $27.00. The visitor to Tokyo can go to Edo Mura, or "Edo Village," the carefully replicated indoor...

.... These errors are more than compensated for by the seven beautifully drawn maps accompanying the chapter on land reform (pp. 35-49). However, the statement there that "holdings are limited to land within the mura" (p. 35) in which the farmer resides is legally correct but is not an accurate picture. Exceptions...

..., Harvard University, 1990. xv, 271 pp. $27.00. The visitor to Tokyo can go to Edo Mura, or "Edo Village," the carefully replicated indoor stretch of an old Fukagawa neighborhood where vendors' street cries, mixed with other everyday sounds, echo down back alleys. Like reproductions of colonial-era villages...

... such a study, and this reviewer agrees with Professor Reischauer's jacket comment that it is "the best and most detailed study of a Japanese social microcosm that has ever been produced in a Western language." Suye Mura, with which it is most nearly comparable, appeared just twenty years ago, likewise...

... of a Japanese social microcosm that has ever been produced in a Western language." Suye Mura, with which it is most nearly comparable, appeared just twenty years ago, likewise published by the University of Chicago Press, but the circumstances of field work and authorship were so different that any direct...

... of Tokyo; Fuchu-machi and Sai fu-mura in the Seventh ward. BOOK REVIEWS 401 studies of the social, political, and economic conditions of the two wards were made to supplement the interviews. Slightly different questionnaires were used in the First and Seventh wards, and the samples were chosen differently...

... have failed: it puts the breath of life into that almond-eyed Barbie Doll of modern invention, The Traditional Japanese Woman. Built around a journal that was written down amid the clatter of daily activity in a remote village, packed with revealing anecdotes, wit-warm and lucid, The Women of Suye Mura...

... and other property as well as people (mura \agami, mura sashidashi meisaicho) reports on servants, local commerce, the appearance of suspicious characters, submissions, claims, and petitions. 3. Village records such as accounts (mura iriyocho, mura shihaicho) records of correspondence and miscellaneous...

... on extralegal means of persuasion, and the resultant resort to the heavy use of administrative guidance has created a form of consensual management. In postwar Japan, the mura lives on in the firm, factory, and other urban community, where autonomy is effectively preserved and where boycotts and other forms...