Takamure Itsue, Japanese Antiquity, and Matricultural Paradigms that Address the Crisis of Modernity: A Woman from the Land of Fire

Takamure Itsue, Japanese Antiquity, and Matricultural Paradigms that Address the Crisis of Modernity: A Woman from the Land of Fire
by: Yasuko Sato (Author)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 1 July 2023
Language: English
Print Length: 358 pages
ISBN-10: 3031179080
ISBN-13: 9783031179082

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Review “Yasuko Sato provides a sympathetic account of the life and work of the sometimes controversial figure of Takamure Itsue. By surveying Takamure’s poetry, diaries, autobiographical writings, polemical writings, and her studies of Japanese history and mythology, Sato introduces Takamure to a wide international audience.” (Vera Mackie, University of Wollongong, Australia)“Takamure Itsue, an anarchist, poet, first women’s historian, fanatic nationalist and maternalist feminist, is a controversial figure. This is a challenging and considerate re-examination to allocate her work and life with a new light in the historical context of Japanese feminism.” (Chizuko Ueno, University of Tokyo, Japan)“An analysis of the historian and thinker Takamure Itsue is long overdue. In this important work, Sato attends to Takamure’s complex body of scholarship which straddles the past, present, and future. Readers will benefit from Sato’s careful attention to Takamure’s alternative visions for society and significant reinterpretation of Takamure’s work and legacy. Takamure is mostly known in English for her anarchist writings and pathbreaking research on matrilocal marriage patterns in early Japanese society. Instead, Sato focuses on Takamure’s entire intellectual trajectory, interweaving it with her fascinating biography. The book sheds critical light on Takamure’s distinctive feminism, elucidating her scholarship on female-friendly societies and visions for a woman-centered future beyond the nation-state. Although scholars have criticized Takamure’s support for the wartime state, Sato pieces together the whole of Takamure’s monumental oeuvre and finds more consistency that rupture in her thought. We in the present, Sato contends, will benefit from grappling with Takamure’s legacy.” (Marnie S. Anderson, Smith College, USA) “Sato’s book offers a sympathetic and comprehensive portrait of the pioneering feminist writer Takamure Itsue. Through an analysis of both her work and her tumultuous personal life, it illuminates how and why she came to a critique of the patriarchal, capitalist society in which she lived, and it introduces readers to her lively and provocative writing about varied topics including love, ethnography, poetry, anarchy, and ancient Japanese history. This book, which combines biography and intellectual history, will be essential reading for scholars interested in one of Japan’s most prominent feminist thinkers.” (Amy Beth Stanley, Northwestern University, USA) “Sato’s exposition of Takamure Itsue’s lifework is an exhilarating plunge into the life and vision of a revolutionary Japanese thinker. Takamure’s personal experience of the failures of patriarchy inspired a remarkable oeuvre detailing, among other things, the power and longevity of historical Japanese matriculture and, most exciting, a map forward towards the intensification of matriculture in any society today. It is no accident that strengthening matricultures around the world would go a long way towards addressing the causes and consequences of climate change and ultra-militarized states – both the fruit of patriarchal lust for money and power. Compliments to Yasuko Sato for bringing forth Takamure’s ideas at a moment when old ways have reached their expiry date!” (Linnéa Rowlatt, International Network for Training, Education, and Research on Culture, Canada)

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