Contents
Editorial Note
Introduction
Part 1: Women’s Networks Forged through Their Families
1. Women’s Roles in Men’s Narratives of Samurai Life | Luke S. Roberts
2. Rai Shizu’s Multiple Networks | Bettina Gramlich-Oka
3. The Creation of Female Networks in Exile: Hirata Atsutane and Orise’s Banishment to Akita | Anne Walthall
4. Upholding the Household: Bakin’s Daughter-in-Law and Her Diary | Itasaka Noriko, Translated by Yamamoto Yoshitaka
5. Building Networks on the Fly: The Travails of Travel for Domain Lords’ Women | Shiba Keiko, Translated by Anne Walthall
Part 2: Women’s Networks Apart from Family
6. Networks of Believers in a New Religion: Female Devotees of Fujidō | Miyazaki Fumiko
7. Early Meiji Working Women: Female Workers’ Networks in Records of the Tomioka Silk Mill | Sugano Noriko, Translated by Yamamoto Yoshitaka
8. From Concubine to Activist and “Anonymous Founder”: The Role of Networks in Sumiya Koume’s Life | Marnie S. Anderson
Part 3: Women’s Roles in Men’s Networks
9. Expanding and Multilayering Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan: The Case of the Shin-Yoshiwara Red-Light District | Yokoyama Yuriko, Translated by Jeffrey Knott
10. Female Networks and Social Stratification in Meiji Japan: From the Perspective of Fukuzawa Yukichi | Nishizawa Naoko, Translated by Jeffrey Knott
Contributors
Index