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

by Anne Walthall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226872351
• ISBN13: 9780226872353
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"