Table of Contents

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 Emigres 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 Indexv

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This volume is a valuable contribution to the field of Japanese studies. The selections are excellent, as is the quality of the translation. Although the editors and authors are scholars of literature, they have selected for translation the very texts that historians would most like to see. These translations are the opening wedge that allows us to think beyond the stereotypical images of women in Meiji Japan. -- Sally Hastings, associate professor of history and chair, Asian Studies Program, Purdue University The Modern Murasaki ensures that future discussions of Meiji literature in the English-speaking world cannot ignore the presence of women writers and readers. The volume's accessible style and the liveliness of the translations will win readers with a general interest in Japan or, more broadly, in women's writing in Asia. -- Jan Bardsley, associate professor of Japanese humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Promotional Information

This volume is a valuable contribution to the field of Japanese studies. The selections are excellent, as is the quality of the translation. Although the editors and authors are scholars of literature, they have selected for translation the very texts that historians would most like to see. These translations are the opening wedge that allows us to think beyond the stereotypical images of women in Meiji Japan. -- Sally Hastings, associate professor of history and chair, Asian Studies Program, Purdue University The Modern Murasaki ensures that future discussions of Meiji literature in the English-speaking world cannot ignore the presence of women writers and readers. The volume's accessible style and the liveliness of the translations will win readers with a general interest in Japan or, more broadly, in women's writing in Asia. -- Jan Bardsley, associate professor of Japanese humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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