Marriage in Changing Japan

<p>This book approaches its subject from two angles. First there is a detailed and descriptive analysis of the social organisation of and place of marriage in one community in Kyushu. To this extent the study is a regional one and provides valuable ethnographic information. The second angle however is to analyse this material in the light of other historical ethnographical writings on Japan which puts the regional material in a national context and brings together a great deal of information about Japanese marriage hitherto unpublished in English. </p>