Woman in the Crested Kimono : The Life of Shibue Io and Her Family Drawn from Mori Ogai's Shibue Chusai

by Edwin McClellan

• ISBN13: 9780300046182
• ISBN10: 0300046189
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1998-10-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Daughter of a merchant family in nineteenth-century Japan and wife of a distinguished scholar-doctor of the samurai class, Shibue Io was a woman remarkable in her own right for her exceptionally keen mind and fearless spirit. Edwin McClellan now draws on the biography of her husband, written by Mori Ogai, to tell the story of Shibue Io, her society, and her times.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
A Note on Japanese Names	xi
The Principal Characters	xii
Prologue	1	(9)
The Early Life and Times of Shibue Chusai	10	(12)
The Young Io	22	(13)
The Family and Friends	35	(25)
Hirano Sadakata, ``A True Bushi''	60	(9)
Thieves and Earthquakes	69	(7)
Chusai's Death	76	(9)
Incidents of Widowhood	85	(12)
The Recall to Hirosaki	97	(9)
Life in Hirosaki	106	(17)
Return to Tokyo	123	(13)
Adjusting to the Modern Age	136	(14)
Io's Last Days	150	(9)
Notes	159	(20)
Bibliography	179	(4)
Index	183