This week: what do we know about women and the wrong end of the law during the Tokugawa Period? Given the male-dominated nature of the feudal social order and the historical written record, what can we figure out? And what are the limits of that knowledge?
Sources
Walthall, Anne. “Devoted Wives/Unruly Women: Invisible Presence in the History of Japanese Social Protest.” Signs 20, no. 1 (1994)
Bix, Herbert P. “Miura Meisuke, or Peasant Rebellion under the Banner of ‘Distress'”. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 10, No 2 (2019)
