Woman in the Crested Kimono : The Life of

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.

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

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

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