Aooku, the Secret World of the Shogun's Women by Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Linda H. Chance

Aooku, the Secret World of the Shogun's Women

Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Linda H. Chance

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"One of the least understood and often maligned aspects of the Tokugawa Shogunate is the Ooku, or 'Great Interior, ' the institution within the shogun's palace, administered by and for the upper-class shogunal women and their attendants who reside...

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