Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Lists of Illustrations and Tables vii
4. A Note to Readers ix
5. Introduction 1
6. PART ONE. NORMS: STEM STRUCTURES AND PRACTICES
7. 1. The Language and Contours of Familial Obligation in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Japan 23
8. 2. Adoption and the Maintenance of the Early Modern Elite: Japan in the East Asian Context 47
9. 3. Imagined Communities of the Living and the Dead: The Spread of the Ancestor-Venerating Stem Family in Tokugawa Japan 68
10. 4. Name and Fame: Material Objects as Authority, Security, and Legacy 109
11. 5. Outcastes and Ie : The Case of Two Beggar Boss Associations 126
12. PART TWO. CASE STUDIES: STEM ADAPTATIONS AND THREATS
13. 6. Governing the Samurai Family in the Late Edo Period 149
14. 7. Fashioning the Family: A Temple, a Daughter, and a Wardrobe 174
15. 8. Social Norms versus Individual Desire: Conventions and Unconventionality in the History of Hirata Atsutane’s Family 195
16. 9. Family Trouble: Views from the Stage and a Merchant Archive 217
17. 10. Ideal Families in Crisis: Official and Fictional Archetypes at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century 239
18. Appendix Suggestions for Further Reading 261
19. Contributors 267
20. Index 269