Yagi Akiko

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Yagi Akiko
Born1895
Died1983(1983-00-00) (aged 87–88)
OccupationWriter

Yagi Akiko (1895–1983) was an anarchist writer and activist. She wrote for anarchist women's arts journals Fujin Sensen (The Women's Front) and Nyonin Geijutsu (Women's Arts) on topics including bolshevism,[1] the commercial commodification of women,[2] and the imperial founding of Manchukuo, a puppet state that she described as a slave, having traded one imperial ruler for another.[3] Her travelogue "Letters from a Trip to Kyushu", written with Fumiko Hayashi, tells of their drinking and meeting men, as two modern women outré for the time period.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Mackie, Vera (2003). Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality. Cambridge University Press. pp. 247, 91. ISBN 978-0-521-52719-4.
  2. ^ Bernstein, Gail Lee (1991). Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945. University of California Press. p. 251. ISBN 978-0-520-07017-2.
  3. ^ Mackie 2003, p. 101.
  4. ^ Silverberg, Miriam (2009). Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times. University of California Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-520-26008-5.

Further reading[edit]

  • Libertaire Group (1979). A Short History of the Anarchist Movement in Japan. Idea Pub. House. p. 214–.
  • Mackie, Vera (July 13, 1997). Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900-1937. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-55137-3.