Fowler, Edward - San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo

Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1996). orig.boards. 22x15cm, xxi, 262 pp. Textual photo illustrations.. Minor rubbing. Some light binding soil. VG. ¶ Contents: Setting: A Tour of San'ya; Two San'ya Landmarks; The Morning Labor Market; Edo,Tokyo, San'ya; The San'ya Doyagai; An Evening at the Palace; Lives: Day Laborers; Union Members & Sympathizers; Proprietors & Shopkeepers; Bureaucrats; Missionaries; Other Voices: Activist: Labor Union Workshop; Union Planning Session; Maria Restaurant; Citizens' Patrol;Rites: Fall & Winter Festivals; Year-Forgetting Parties; Requiem for a Yama Man; Ridge-Raising Ceremony; Farewells; Work; Epilogue; Interviewing: Memory as Oral History.