Cover of Tsuda Umeko and women's education in Japan

Tsuda Umeko and women's education in Japan

by Barbara Rose

1992 208 pages eng

"Tsuda Umeko was one of five young Japanese girls sent to the United States in 1871 by their government to be trained in the lore of domesticity. The new Meiji rulers defined a "true woman" as one who had learned to rear children who would be loyal and obedient to the state, and they looked to the "…

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