The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration
(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)
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In 1862, fifty-one-year-old Matsuo Taseko left her old life behind by traveling to Kyoto, the old imperial capital. Peasant, poet, and local political activist, Taseko had come to Kyoto to support the nativist campaign to restore the Japanese emperor and expel Western "barbarians." Although she played a minor role in the events that led to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, her actions were nonetheless astonishing for a woman of her day. Honored as a...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0226872351
ISBN13:9780226872353
Release Date:November 1998
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:428 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"
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