Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. The Political Economy of Social Change in To-hoku Japan -- 1. The Practice of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Japan -- 2. The Social Impact of Rural-Urban Shift: Some Akita Examples -- 3. Rice Revolutions and Farm Families in To-hoku: Why Is Farming Culturally Centraland Economically Marginal? -- Part II. Wearing Tradition and Wearing Modernity: Negotiating Paths of Social Change -- 4. Young Women Making Lives in Northeast Japan -- 5. Negotiating Internationalization in Kitasawa -- 6. Preserving the Ochiai Deer Dance: Tradition and Continuity in a To-hoku Hamlet -- 7. Heartbreak's Destination: To-hoku in the Poetic Discourse of Enka -- 8. Tradition and Modernity Merged in Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware: Perspectives of Preservation and Promotion, Production and Consumption -- 9. Epilogue: To-hoku: A Place -- Contributors -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.