Böcker i Japan Anthropology Workshop Series-serien

Examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chadAi) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city, Akita, this book surveys the rigid, hierarchical chadAi system at grass roots level.

In the Japanese language, the word 'ie' denotes both the materiality of homes and family relations within. This book addresses various aspects of family life and dwelling spaces, exploring how homes, household patterns and kin relations are reacting to social, economic and urban transformations.

Relates the experiences of the zanryu-hojin - the Japanese civilians, mostly women and children, who were abandoned in Manchuria after the end of the Second World War when Japan's puppet state in Manchuria ended, and when most Japanese who has been based there returned to Japan.