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Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese StudiesNumber 70

Center for Japanese StudiesThe University of Michigan


The Female as Subject:Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan

edited by

P. F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio, and G. G. Rowley

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Center for Japanese StudiesThe University of Michigan

Ann Arbor 2010

This book was financed in part through a generous grant

from the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge.


Copyright © 2010 by The Regents of the University of Michigan

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Published by the Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan

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The female as subject : reading and writing in early modern Japan / edited by P. F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio, and G. G. Rowley. p. cm. — (Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 70) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-929280-64-3 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-929280-65-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Japanese literature—History and criticism. 2. Women and literature—Japan. 3. Books and reading—Japan. 4. Women in literature. I. Kornicki, Peter F. (Peter Francis) II. Patessio, Mara, 1975– III. Rowley, G. G., 1960–

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Contents

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List of Illustrations vii

List of Tables viii

Introduction 1P. F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio, and G. G. Rowley

1 Women, Education, and Literacy 7P. F. Kornicki

2 The Tale of Genji: Required Reading for Aristocratic Women 39G. G. Rowley

3 Illustrated Classical Texts for Women in the Edo Period 59Joshua S. Mostow

4 The Woman Reader as Symbol: Changes in Images of the Woman Reader in Ukiyo-e 87

Itasaka Noriko

5 In the Shadow of Men: Looking for Literate Women in Biography and Prosopography 109

Anna Beerens


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Contents

6 A Father’s Advice: Confucian Cultivation for Women in the Late Eighteenth Century 123

Bettina Gramlich-Oka

7 Nishitani Saku and Her Mother: “Writing” in the Lives of Edo Period Women 141

Yabuta Yutaka

8 The Taming of the Strange: Arakida Rei Reads and Writes Stories of the Supernatural 151

Atsuko Sakaki

9 Kishida Toshiko and the Career of a Public-Speaking Woman in Meiji Japan 171

Sugano Noriko

10 Readers and Writers: Japanese Women and Magazines in the Late Nineteenth Century 191

Mara Patessio

11 Women and Literacy from Edo to Meiji 215Anne Walthall

Bibliography 237

Contributors 265

Index 269


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Illustrations

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1. Saga-bon Ise monogatari (1608), episode 1. 61

2. Genji binkagami (1660), “Kiritsubo.” 63

3. Hyakunin isshu taisei (1660), frontispiece. 64

4. Illustration to episode 22, in the Saga-bon Ise monogatari (1608). 68

5. Sakauchi San’unshi’s illustration to episode 22, in Kashiragaki Ise monogatari shô (1647). 69

6. Hishikawa Moronobu’s illustration to episode 22, in Kashiragaki Ise monogatari shô (1679). 70

7. Yoshida Hanbei’s illustration to episode 22, in the (Denju-iri) Ise monogatari (1685). 71

8. Ise monogatari kaisei (1698), episode 22. 73

9A. Shimokôbe Shûsui (Jûsui). (Shinpan) Ise monogatari (1756). 75

9B. Shimokôbe Shûsui (Jûsui). (Shinpan) Ise monogatari (1756). 76

10. Tsukioka Tange (Settei). (E-iri) Ise monogatari (1756), Woman teaching. 77

11. Shimokôbe Shûsui. Ehon Ama-yadori (1780), “Tatsuta Mountain.” 78

12. Takehara Shunchôsai, illus. Joyô Fukuju-dai (1785), “Aki no ta no.” 79


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Illustrations

13. Anonymous, Nihon Bungaku Hôkokkai, ed. Aikoku Hyakunin isshu. Osaka: Hakusuisha, 1943. 84

14. Sakuma Shirô. “Hijôji no haru,” Japanese weekly (January 1938). 85

15. “Sagami” from Hishikawa Moronobu’s Sugata-e hyakunin isshu (1695). 89

16. Painting by Torii Kiyomasu II of a young girl reading Hyakunin isshu. 91

17. Scene from Nishikawa Sukenobu’s Hyakunin jorô shinasadame (1723). 92

18. Katsurano reading Kinjitsushô, from Seirô bijin awase sugata kagami (1777). 95

19. Painting by Katsukawa Shunshô. 96

20. “Kiga” from Torii Kiyonaga’s series Hakone shichitô meisho (1783). 97

21. In “Momiji no ga” from the series Azuma sugata Genji awase (1818) by Kikugawa Eizan, a young woman is engrossed in an Itchû-bushi songbook. 100

22. Utagawa Kunisada, “Arigatai miyo no kage-e” (ca. 1850). 102

23. The covers of part 11 of Santô Kyôsan’s Nyôbô katagi (The Character of Housewives). 104

24. Utagawa Kunichika, “Kaika ninjô kagami: Benkyô” (1878). 108

25. Nishitani Family tree. 143

26. Models for calligraphy practice used by Saku and Tazu. 144

27. Title page of the list of landholdings used for Saku. 145

28. Concluding portion of Saku’s letter to her father in Kyoto. 146

29. Title page of Tazu’s account of dreams seen by her and her mother. 147

30. First page of Saku’s record of daily expenditures. 148


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Tables

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1. Female and Male Friends of the Kyôansha in Shinano 20

2. Nyosho (Books for Women) in the 1670 Booksellers’ Catalog 26

3. Women Writers Listed in Joryû chosaku kaidai 33

4. Backgrounds of Women Poets Contained in Oka no agata shû 121
