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Episode 565 – Riot Girls
This week: what do we know about women and the wrong end of the law during the Tokugawa Period? Given the male-dominated nature of the feudal social order and the historical written record, what can we figure out? And what are the limits of that knowledge?
Sources
Walthall, Anne. “Devoted Wives/Unruly Women: Invisible Presence in the History of Japanese Social Protest.” Signs 20, no. 1 (1994)
Bix, Herbert P. “Miura Meisuke, or Peasant Rebellion under the Banner of ‘Distress'”. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 10, No 2 (2019)
<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9755" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Utagawa-Kunisada-Sogoro-leaves-family-300x216.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="216" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Utagawa-Kunisada-Sogoro-leaves-family-300x216.jpg 300w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Utagawa-Kunisada-Sogoro-leaves-family-768x554.jpg 768w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Utagawa-Kunisada-Sogoro-leaves-family.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Sakura Sogoro departs his family, by Utagawa Kunisada
<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9757" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/243k528f-206x300.jpg" alt="" width="206" height="300" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/243k528f-206x300.jpg 206w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/243k528f.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px" />Utagawa Kunichika depicting the kabuki actor Ichikawa Sadanji as Otsuta, the woman who volunteers to die for her husband.
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This week: what do we know about women and the wrong end of the law during the Tokugawa Period? Given the male-dominated nature of the feudal social order and the historical written record, what can we figure out? And what are the limits of that knowledge?
Sources
Walthall, Anne. “Devoted Wives/Unruly Women: Invisible Presence in the History of Japanese Social Protest.” Signs 20, no. 1 (1994)
Bix, Herbert P. “Miura Meisuke, or Peasant Rebellion under the Banner of ‘Distress'”. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 10, No 2 (2019)
<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9755" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Utagawa-Kunisada-Sogoro-leaves-family-300x216.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="216" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Utagawa-Kunisada-Sogoro-leaves-family-300x216.jpg 300w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Utagawa-Kunisada-Sogoro-leaves-family-768x554.jpg 768w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Utagawa-Kunisada-Sogoro-leaves-family.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Sakura Sogoro departs his family, by Utagawa Kunisada
<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9757" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/243k528f-206x300.jpg" alt="" width="206" height="300" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/243k528f-206x300.jpg 206w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/243k528f.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px" />Utagawa Kunichika depicting the kabuki actor Ichikawa Sadanji as Otsuta, the woman who volunteers to die for her husband.