Women of the Mito Domain
Recollections of Samurai Family Life
Yamakawa Kikue Translated and with an Introduction by Kate Wildman Nakai
April 2001
228 Pages
Paperback ISBN: 9780804731492
"The book is a treasure house of immensely informative material. . . . An important addition to the small body of English-language works on the conditions of late Tokugawa society, told at a very human level."—Comparative Studies in Society and History
Yamakawa Kikue (1890-1980) was a prominent socialist and feminist who published widely in these fields. The present volume was written in 1943 and is supplemented by excerpts from her later writings.
