RaveLos Angeles Review of Books... [The book does] a fine job of introducing this wealth of historical material to the general reader...orientating even the first-time traveler to one of the great cities of the early modern world ... Stanley successfully uses Tsuneno’s unusually eventful life as a window onto a joltingly unfamiliar view of the city ... Tsuneno’s personality shines through...with remarkably clarity ... The political urgency of #MeToo-era feminism thrums through the text like a theremin ... Similarly, her emphasis on the gendered economy of child-raising feels particularly necessary at this current moment ... even if the Edoite mentality may never be entirely knowable...[Stanley] get[s] us remarkably close.
