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Woman in the Crested Kimono - The Life of Shibue Io and Her Family Drawn from Mori Ogai's Shibue Chusai (Paperback, New Ed)
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Woman in the Crested Kimono - The Life of Shibue Io and Her Family Drawn from Mori Ogai's Shibue Chusai (Paperback, New Ed)
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"The life of Shibue Io and her family, a kind of Japanese
Buddenbrooks, may be unknown in the West, but her rich and engaging
story marks the intersection of a remarkable woman with a
fascinating time in history."-Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a
Geisha "It stands clichEs about traditional Japan on their heads. .
. .Together with the people she knew, Io lives on in this literary
album of old family pictures. It is well worth looking at."-Ian
Buruma, New York Times Book Review "A most engaging book. Seeing
Shibue Io through the various lenses of her husband, her son,
Tamotsu (from whom much information is gleaned), the novelist Ogai,
and the biographer McClellan is an interesting, moving, disarming
experience."-Donald Richie, Japan Times "McClellan. . . has created
a lively world, populated by women of various classes, samurai,
doctors, poets, merchants, juvenile delinquents, and old
eccentrics. The various incidents in which these people become
involved provide a vivid picture of late Tokugawa society. This is
a remarkable accomplishment."-Nakai Yoshiyuki, Monumenta Nipponica
"An engrossing, informative, and extremely useful book. . . . Woman
in the Crested Kimono is not simply the account of one unusual
Tokugawa woman. It is an evocation of a family, and through a
family the entire samurai class, going from the comparative
affluence of the late Tokugawa period through the turmoils of the
restoration and beyond."-Susan Napier, Journal of Asian Studies
Daughter of a merchant family in nineteenth-century Japan and wife
of a distinguished scholar-doctor of the samurai class, Shibue Io
was a woman remarkable in her own right for her exceptionally keen
mind and fearless spirit. Edwin McClellan now draws on the
biography of her husband, written by Mori Ogai, to tell the story
of Shibue Io, her society, and her times.
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