International Ōgai Studies

McClellan, Edwin
Woman in the Crested Kimono: The Life of Shibue Io and Her Family Drawn from Mori Ōgai’s ‘Shibue Chūsai’, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press 1985. xiv, 192p. New Edition 1998.

Acknowledgments, ix–x.
A Note on Japanese Names, xi.
The Principal Characters, xii-xiii.
Prologue, 1–9.
1. The Early Life and Times of Shibue Chūsai, 10–21.
2. The Young Io, 22–34.
3. The Family and Friends, 35–59.
4. Hirano Sadakata, ‘A True Bushi’, 60–68.
5. Thieves and Earthquakes, 69–75.
6. Chūsai’s Death, 76–84.
7. Incidents of Widowhood, 85–96.
8. The Recall to Hirosaki, 97–105.
9. Life in Hirosaki, 106–22.
10. Return to Tokyo, 123–35.
11. Adjusting to the Modern Age, 136–49.
12. Io’s Last Days, 150–58.
Notes, 159–78.
Bibliography, 179–81.
Index, 183–92.

Reviews

Bowring, Richard. Modern Asian Studies 20.3 (July 1986): 623.
M[acfarlane], D. L. M. Asian Affairs 17.2 (Old Series Vol. 73) (June 1986): 218–19.
Macfarlane, D. L. M. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1 (1986): 95.
Nakai Yoshiyuki. Monumenta Nipponica 41.3 (1986): 353–55.
Napier, Susan. Journal of Asian Studies 45.4 (1986): 852–53.
Nishimura Sey. Pacific Affairs 59.2 (1986): 331–32.
Anderer, Paul. Journal of Japanese Studies 13.1 (1987): 152–56.