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Woman in the Crested Kimono : The Life of Shibue Io and Her Family Drawn from Mori Ogai's 'Shibue Chusai'
Woman in the Crested Kimono The Life of Shibue Io and Her Family Drawn from Mori Ogai's 'Shibue Chusai' Author:Edwin McClellan Daughter of a merchant family in nineteenth-century Japan and wife of a distinguished scholar-doctor of the samurai class, Shibue Io was a woman remarkable in her own right for her exceptionally keen mind and fearless spirit. Edwin McClellan now draws on the biography of her husband, written by Mori Ogai, to tell the story of Shibue Io, her so... more »ciety, and her times.« less