I saw this book on someone else's bookshelf and had to have a copy of it for my nephew who spent a year in Japan as an exchange student. Will be shipping to him in Germany.

FROM THE PUBLISHER:
This is the intimate and richly informative diary kept in 1910 by the young wife of a hustling merchant household in Kyoto. Makiko's husband was the head of his family's pharmaceutical business, and because the store and the family's living quarters were under one roof, it was a very busy place. Makiko writes perceptively about both special occasions (such as weddings, funerals, ancestral memorial services, and festivals) and the daily routine of her complex household.

On it's way to Edibnihon

I just recieved this book from my aunt. Thank you I am reading it now!