Weak Body of a Useless Woman Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration

Name: Weak Body of a Useless Woman Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration
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ISBN: 9780226872377

ISBN-10: 0226872378

ISBN-13: 9780226872377

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Authors: Anne Walthall

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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 hero even before her death, Taseko has since been adopted as a patron saint by rightist nationalists. In telling Taseko's story, Anne Walthall gives us not just the first full biography in English of a peasant woman of the Tokugawa period…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Pt . I



The Making of a Poet



Taseko's Political Heritage



Married Life



The Farm Family Economy



The Nativist Encounter



Nativist Texts and the Female Reader



Kyoto, 1862-18637: Autumn in Arashiyama



A Peasant Woman at the Emperor's Court



Beheading Statues



Going Home



Taseko and the Meiji Restoration



On the Sidelines



Kyoto, 1868



Famous Friends



Political Intrigues and Conflicting Visions



Taseko in Modern Japan



Taseko in Old Age



Remembering Taseko


Epilogue


Notes


Index