Manners and customs, folklore and ethnology Life and History of the Kyoto Hata Machiya / Seki Akimoto / Takehiro Kobayashi

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Manners and Customs, Folklore and Ethnology
The Hata family, a merchant family in Kyoto that has inherited the production and wholesale of the pediatric drug "Kiomaru" since it was established in the Genroku era. Tracing the history of the Hata family as a townspeople who supported the autonomy and Gion Matsuri of Kyoto, it tells the story of Shitsurai, a prominent Kyomachiya that was rebuilt after the Great Fire in the end of the Edo period, the annual events inherited by the people living there and daily activities throughout the four seasons together with beautiful pictures. (Color p. 32)