The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan

Edited by Rebecca Copeland and Melek Ortabasi

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Paper, 424 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13775-1
$27.00 / £18.50

November, 2006
Cloth, 424 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13774-4
$80.00 / £55.00

Preface

Introduction: Meiji Women Writers, by Rebecca L. Copeland

Meiji Women's Poetry, by Laurel Rasplica Rodd

Selected Poems by Meiji Women

Kishida Toshiko (1863-1901), by Rebecca L. Copeland and Aiko Okamoto MacPhail

Daughters in Boxes

Miyake Kaho (1868-1944), by Rebecca L. Copeland

Warbler in the Grove

Higuchi Ichiyo (1872-1896), by Kyoko Omori

Higuchi Ichiyo's Journal Entries

Tazawa Inabune (1874-1896), by Melek Ortabasi

The Temple of Godai

Kitada Usurai (1876-1900), by Melek Ortabasi

Wretched Sights

Hiding the Gray

Shimizu Shikin (1868-1933), by Rebecca Jennison

How Determined Are Today's Women Students?

The Broken Ring

School for Emigrés

Hasegawa Shigure (1879-1941), by Carole Cavanaugh

Wavering Traces

Nogami Yaeko (1885-1985), by Eleanor J. Hogan

Persimmon Sweets

Mizuno Senko (1888-1919), by Barbara Hartley

For More Than Forty Days

Tamura Toshiko (1884-1945), by Edward Fowler

Lifeblood

The Vow

Further Reading

Contributors

Index

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Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• Women's Studies

Series

• Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

About the Author

Rebecca Copeland is professor of Japanese literature at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Her many books include The Sounds of the Wind: The Life and Works of Uno Chiyo and Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan.Melek Ortabasi is assistant professor of comparative literature and Japanese at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Her research interests include Meiji women writers, Japanese folklore studies, film and popular culture, and translation theory. Currently she is working on a monograph about native ethnologist Yanagita Kunio

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