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Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family

Discusses the complex economic, emotional, biological, cultural, & religious ties & relations among family members of Japanese family-owned businesses. Details the everyday lives of three such families. Hamabata also describes his own unexpected search for personal discovery & acceptance as an unmarried, third generation Japanese-American male attempting to fit in to tradition-bound Japanese society. He portrays Japanese society as a balance between tradition & modernity, culture & person, & authority & emotion. Includes an extensive bibliography.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 204
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780801499753
  • Genres
  • japan, anthropology
  • Release date
  • 1991