24 Hours in Shogun's Japan: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History #2)

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Table of Contents:
HOUR OF THE RAT 1 (00.00-01.00): The old shōgun plots his last battle

HOUR OF THE RAT 2 (01.00-02.00): A pirate boat returns from abroad

HOUR OF THE OX 1 (02.00-03.00): A doctor tends a patient

HOUR OF THE OX 2 (03.00-04.00): A novice in a Buddhist temple

HOUR OF THE TIGER 1 (04.00-05.00): Breakfast is prepared at an inn

HOUR OF THE TIGER 2 (05.00-06.00): A farmer's son protects the wheat field

HOUR OF THE HARE 1 (06.00-07.00): An Ainu hunter checks his traps

HOUR OF THE HARE 2 (07.00-08.00): A woman carries charcoal to the market

HOUR OF THE DRAGON 1 (08.00-09.00): A peasant lodges a petition

HOUR OF THE DRAGON 2 (09.00-10.00): A merchant buys and sells

HOUR OF THE SNAKE 1 (10.00-11.00): A samurai goes shopping in Nagasaki

HOUR OF THE SNAKE 2 (11.00-12.00): A falcon-handler prepares for a hunt

HOUR OF THE HORSE 1 (12.00-13.00): A young samurai is trained in siege warfare

HOUR OF THE HORSE 2 (13.00-14.00): A townsman eats a quick lunch

HOUR OF THE GOAT 1 (14.00-15.00): A tea master performs a ceremony

HOUR OF THE GOAT 2 (15.00-16.00): A Corpus Christi procession begins in Nagasaki

HOUR OF THE MONKEY 1 (16.00-17.00): A high-powered concubine considers the political landscape

HOUR OF THE MONKEY 2 (17.00-18.00): A weaver's mother is buried

HOUR OF THE COCK 1 (18.00-19.00): A traveller arrives at an inn

HOUR OF THE COCK 2 (19.00-20.00): A banquet at the Matsura residence

HOUR OF THE DOG 1 (20.00-21.00): Iberian

HOUR OF THE DOG 2 (21.00-22.00): A riverside kabuki performance in Kyoto

HOUR OF THE BOAR 1 (22.00-23.00): A mountain ascetic climbs Mount Fuji

HOUR OF THE BOAR 2 (23.00-24.00): A bodyguard prevents an attack

Biographical Note:
Dr Mark Hudson was educated at SOAS (BA), Cambridge (M.Phil), and the Australian National University (PhD). He taught archaeology and anthropology in Japan for more than twenty years and was Professor at the Mount Fuji World Heritage Centre, where he helped design the prize-winning exhibits on Mount Fuji. Mark is currently a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany and a research associate of the Institut d'Asie Orientale in France. His previous publications include Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands and, as co-editor, Volume 1 of the Cambridge World History of Violence.

Review Citations:

Library Journal 06/01/2026 pg. 97 (EAN 9781789298871, Hardcover)