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 | The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration (Women in Culture and Society) (1st Edition) by University Anne Walthall, Catharine R. Stimpson Paperback, 428 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-226-87237-8 / 0226872378 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-87237-7 / 9780226872377 In 1862, fifty-one-year-old Matsuo Taseko left her old life behind by traveling to Kyoto, the old imperial capital. Peasant, poet, and local political activist, Taseko had come to Kyoto to support the nativist campaign to restore the Japanese emperor and expel Western "barbarians." Although she play | |