Amaterasu was known to be the chief deity and the goddess of the sun in Japanese Shinto religion. She was said to be born following the death of her mother Izanami as her father Izanagi cleansed his face; Amaterasu was born from his left eye, her brother Tsukiyomi...
Image Source: Image Caption: Tags: kimono, kabuki, Japan This traditional kimono is part of the Japan collection at the V&A museum in London. It was made to be worn by a performer of the traditional Japanese theatre known as Kabuki. Kabuki is known as one of three...
Junko Tabei was born in Japan in 1939. She was raised in a culture that valued women as wives, mothers, and home-makers. Although Tabei would marry and have two children, she was not content to be a housewife. When Tabei was 10, she climbed Mount Nasu with a teacher....
Many textbooks will tell you that girls in Tokugawa Japan might as well have been slaves. This is simply not true. Up until the 1980s, scholars knew very little about girls during the Tokugawa period in Japan, from 1602 to 1868. For most of this period, Japan was...
Did you know the world’s first novel was written by a woman? The Tale of Genji was published in Japan around 1000 A.D. and written by Murasaki Shikibu. It is known that Murasaki Shikibu was a lady of the Heian Court and the daughter of a scholar, but her real...
