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Presenting the biography of Matsuo Taseko, a peasant woman of the Tokugawa period, honoured and then adopted as a patron saint by rightist nationalists, this text gives perspectives on the practices and intellectual concerns of rural entrepreneurs and their role in the Meiji Restoration.

The Weak Body of a Useless Woman Matsuo Taseko

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/11/1998
      ISBN13: 9780226872377, 978-0226872377
      ISBN10: 0226872378
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      Biography: historical, political and military Gender studies: women and girls

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      Book Synopsis
      Presenting the biography of Matsuo Taseko, a peasant woman of the Tokugawa period, honoured and then adopted as a patron saint by rightist nationalists, this text gives perspectives on the practices and intellectual concerns of rural entrepreneurs and their role in the Meiji Restoration.

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