The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman
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Bibliographic Information
The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman
（Foremother legacies）
M.E. Sharpe, c1991
- Other Title
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何が私をこうさせたか
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Translation of: 何が私をこうさせたか
"An East Gate Book."
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Kaneko Fumiko (1903-1926) wrote this memoir while in prison after being convicted of plotting to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Despite an early life of misery, deprivation, and hardship, she grew up to be a strong and independent young woman. When she moved to Tokyo in 1920, she gravitated to left-wing groups and eventually joined with the Korean nihilist Pak Yeol to form a two-person nihilist organization. Two days after the Great Tokyo Earthquake, in a general wave of anti-leftist and anti-Korean hysteria, the authorities arrested the pair and charged them with high treason. Defiant to the end (she hanged herself in prison on July 23, 1926), Kaneko Fumiko wrote this memoir as an indictment of the society that oppressed her, the family that abused and neglected her, and the imperial system that drove her to her death.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Father
- Chapter 2 Mother
- Chapter 3 Kobayashi?EURO?s Village
- Chapter 4 Mother?EURO?s Family
- Chapter 5 My New Home
- Chapter 6 Bugang
- Chapter 7 The Iwashitas
- Chapter 8 My Life in Korea
- Chapter 9 Home Again
- Chapter 10 Into the Tiger?EURO?s Mouth
- Chapter 11 The Vortex of Sex
- Chapter 12 Farewell Father!
- Chapter 13 To Tokyo!
- Chapter 14 Great-Uncle?EURO?s House
- Chapter 15 Newsgirl
- Chapter 16 Street Vendor
- Chapter 17 Maid
- Chapter 18 Drifter
- Chapter 19 A Work of My Own!
- Chapter 20 Afterword
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