Amy Stanley, “Finding Echigo in Edo: Snow Country Migrants and Their Urban Worlds”
HSSB 4080 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesThe Echigo province migrant was a familiar type in nineteenth-century Edo. Every year in the tenth month, snow country peasants would come down the mountains on the Nakasendō Highway and enter the city through Itabashi Station. They wandered down the main street in Hongō, where they were met by labor scouts who had learned to […]