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

Summary

Presenting the biography of Matsuo Taseko, a peasant woman of the Tokugawa period, honoured and then adopted as a patron saint by rightist nationalists, this text gives perspectives on the practices and intellectual concerns of rural entrepreneurs and their role in the Meiji Restoration.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Walthall
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.1998
• EAN: 9780226872377
• ISBN: 978-0-226-87237-7
• No. of pages: 428
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 670 g
• Series: Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture and Society; Women in Culture & Society Series WCS (CHUP); Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Japan, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, Biografien: historisch, politisch, militärisch