The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration (Women in Culture & Society)

by Anne Walthall (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $39.45

  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.