Takamure Itsue
Takamure Itsue | |
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Born | Kumamoto, Japan | January 18, 1894
Died | June 7, 1964 Tokyo, Japan | (aged 70)
Known for | 日本古代婚姻例集 Nippon kodai kon'in reishū |
Spouse | Hashimoto Kenzō |
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Takamure Itsue (高群 逸枝, January 18, 1894 – June 7, 1964) was a Japanese
Biography
Takamure was born into a poor family in rural Kumamoto Prefecture in 1894.[1] Her father was a schoolteacher, and educated his daughter in classical Chinese,[2] among other subjects not standard in Japanese women's education at the time.[3] Despite higher academic ambitions,[4] after failing to complete her post-secondary education and working for a time in a cotton-spinning mill, she returned home in 1914 and taught in the same school as her father for three years.[5] In 1917 she met her future partner and editor Hashimoto Kenzō,[6] with whom she lived sporadically after 1919 and who became her legal husband in 1922.[7] Before moving to Tokyo in 1920, she worked briefly for a newspaper in Kumamoto City and undertook the Shikoku pilgrimage in 1918.[8] Takamure's articles on her experiences and the fact that she undertook the pilgrimage as an unmarried woman alone made her something of a celebrity in Japan at the time, and her notoriety only grew after she left her household and husband in Tokyo in the company of another man in 1925.[9] A public scandal ensued despite her speedy reconciliation with Hashimoto, to which Takamure angrily responded in the poem Ie de no shi ("Poem on leaving home"), which was published in her book Tokyo wa netsubyō ni kakatteiru at the end of the year.[10]
In 1926 Takamure met and became friends with the pioneering Japanese feminist
Takamure's deepening commitment to anarchism led her to join the anarchist-feminist group Proletarian Women Artists' League (Musan Fujin Geijitsu Renmei)[16] and, in 1930, to found the anarchist feminist journal Fujin Sensen (The Woman's Front).[17] Fujin Sensen lasted for sixteen issues, until it was shut down in June 1931, as part of deepening fascist repression by the government.[18] In response to these developments and to an affair on Takamure's part,[19] Takamure and Hashimoto withdrew to suburban Tokyo in July 1931.[20] From her "House in the Woods" (Mori no ie), named in homage to Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Takamure embarked on the most influential phase of her career, that of a pioneering historian in the field of Japanese women's history.[21]
Despite her
Takamure's death in 1964 largely predated the uptake of her scholarship into the academy as well as the rediscovery and criticism of her prewar and wartime writings by feminist scholars beginning in the 1970s.
Selected works
- 東京は熱病にかゝつてゐる (Tōkyō wa netsubyō ni kakatteiru, "Tokyo is Feverish")
- 恋愛創生 (Ren'ai sōsei, "Genesis of Love")
- 母系制の研究:大日本女性史1 (Bokeisei no kenkyū: Dainihon joseishi 1, "Study of Matrilineal Systems: Women's History of Great Japan, 1")
- 招婿婚の研究 (Shōseikon no kenkyū, "Studies in Uxorilocal Marriage")
- 女性の歴史 (Josei no rekishi, "A History of Women")
- 娘巡礼記 (Musume junreiki, "An Unmarried Woman's Pilgrimage")
- 日本古代婚姻例集 (Nippon kodai kon'in reishū, "A Collection of Examples of Japanese Marriage from Ancient Times")
See also
- Hiratsuka Raichō
- Bluestocking
- Yamakawa Kikue
References
- ^ Ryang 1998, p. 4; Tsurumi 1985, p. 2.
- ^ Ryang 1998, p. 4; Tsurumi 1985, pp. 2–3.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, p. 3.
- ^ Ryang 1998, p. 4; Tsurumi 1985, pp. 3–4.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, p. 4.
- ^ Ryang 1998, p. 4; Tsurumi 1985, pp. 4–5.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, pp. 5–6.
- ^ Ryang 1998, p. 4; Tsurumi 1985, p. 6.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, p. 6.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, pp. 6–7.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, p. 8.
- ^ Ryang 1998, p. 7; Tsurumi 1985, pp. 7–8.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, pp. 8–9.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, pp. 9–10.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, pp. 10–11.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, p. 11.
- ^ Ryang 1998, p. 7; Tsurumi 1985, p. 11.
- ^ Ryang 1998, p. 7; Tsurumi 1985, pp. 11–14.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, pp. 14–15.
- ^ Ryang 1998, pp. 7–8; Tsurumi 1985, pp. 14–15.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, pp. 15–16.
- ^ Ryang 1998, p. 8; Tsurumi 1985, pp. 16–17.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, pp. 16–17.
- ^ Ryang 1998, p. 20; Tsurumi 1985, p. 17.
- ^ Ryang 1998, p. 26; Tsurumi 1985, pp. 17–18.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, pp. 18–19.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, pp. 17–19.
- ^ Tsurumi 1985, p. 19.
Bibliography
- Ryang, Sonia (1998). "Love and Colonialism in Takamure Itsue's Feminism: A Postcolonial Critique". Feminist Review. 60 (60): 1–32. S2CID 145270502.
- Tsurumi, E. Patricia (June 1985). "Feminism and anarchism in Japan: Takamure Itsue, 1894–1964". Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. 17 (2): 2–19. ISSN 0007-4810.
Further reading
- Carter, Rosalie Gale (1982). Takamure Itsue: social activist and feminist theorist, 1921-31 (OCLC 780018595.
- Chabot, Jeanette Taudin (1985). "Takamure Itsue: The first historian of Japanese women". Women's Studies International Forum. 8 (4). OCLC 4930988152.