The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration by Anne Walthall

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

Women in Culture and Society

Anne Walthall

428 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative inspiring slow-paced
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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 empe...

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