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The Weak Body of a Useless Woman (Paperback, New)
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The Weak Body of a Useless Woman (Paperback, New)
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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 (1603-1868), but also fresh perspectives on the practices
and intellectual concerns of rural entrepreneurs and their role in
the Meiji Restoration. Writing about Taseko with a depth and
complexity that has thus far been accorded only to men of that
time, Walthall has uncovered a tale that will captivate anyone
concerned with women's lives and with Japan's dramatic transition
to modernity.
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