The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman

by Kaneko Fumiko, Mikiso Hane, Jean Inglis

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134901838
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/29/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	226
File size:	468 KB

About the Author

Kaneko Fumiko, Jean Inglis, Mikiso Hane

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Father; Chapter 2 Mother; Chapter 3 Kobayashi’s Village; Chapter 4 Mother’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’s Mouth; Chapter 11 The Vortex of Sex; Chapter 12 Farewell Father!; Chapter 13 To Tokyo!; Chapter 14 Great-Uncle’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;