The Weak Body of a Useless Woman

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pt. I: Life in the Ina Valley
1: The Making of a Poet
2: Taseko's Political Heritage
3: Married Life
4: The Farm Family Economy
5: The Nativist Encounter
6: Nativist Texts and the Female Reader
Pt. II: Kyoto, 1862-1863
7: Autumn in Arashiyama
8: A Peasant Woman at the Emperor's Court
9: Beheading Statues
10: Going Home
Pt. III: Taseko and the Meiji Restoration
11: On the Sidelines
12: Kyoto, 1868
13: Famous Friends
14: Political Intrigues and Conflicting Visions
Pt. IV: Taseko in Modern Japan
15: Taseko in Old Age
16: Remembering Taseko
Epilogue
Notes
Index