Sugimura, Tsune, Kasai, Shigeo
Hachijo - Isle of Exile
ISBN: 
Book Number: 38962
Weatherhill, Trumbull, Connecticut, U.S.A., 1973. First Edition sm 4to. Hard Cover. Very Good +. Very Good d/w. 167pp, profusely illustrated in black/white with 8 pages of Colour photographs. "An historical narrative of Hachijo Island, an isolated penal colony in the Pacific Ocean 240 miles south-east of Tokyo. From 1606 to 1881 nineteen hundred men, women, and children were banished here. Contents includes, Punishment, Law and the Japanese, The Island in the Black Tide, Ukita Hideie : The Unvanquished Warrior, The Exile Life, Excapes and Escapees, The Violent Exiles, Famines and a Hungry Giant, Buddhist Images and Image Makers, Myths, A Mythmaker an da Culture Hero, The Last Exiles. Sawara no Kisaburo, Dacho, Mimbu the Sculptor, Dog Shogun, Kondo Tomizo, Druggist Kinjiro, Tani Hidehiro, Ryuemon's Riot,
Keywords: Punishment, Law and the Japanese, The Island in the Black Tide, Ukita Hideie : The Unvanquished Warrior, The Exile Life, Excapes and Escapees, The Violent Exiles, Famines and a Hungry Giant, Buddhist Images and Image Makers, Myths, A Mythmaker an da Cultu
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