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.
- Author
- Matthews Masayuki Hamabata
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 204
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780801499753
- Genres
- japan, anthropology
- Release date
- 1991
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