The day before the lesson, distribute Handout 1, Selected Writings on the Invention of the Modern Japanese Man. This handout contains excerpts from the writings of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Yosano Akiko.
The episode was previously only known from an entry in Soseki’s diary. Another letter, sent by Akiko Yosano as she was leaving for Paris in 1912 to follow her poet husband Tekkan Yosano (1873 ...
Fifteen-year-old country girl Suzume Yosano has to move to Tokyo to live with her uncle due to her father's transfer. She bumps into a mysterious man who ends up taking her to her uncle's place ...