Tag: Show and Tell 5

Show and Tell 5: Scorned Women in Tokugawa Japan

By: AJ Witte In the world of “Yotsuya Kaidan,” where social standing and family background play a crucial role in determining one’s position in society, “A woman’s socioeconomic position, turn, was determined by her family’s social standing” (Yonemoto 3). Marcia Yonemoto in her book The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan writes about how […]