| Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan Subjects: Japanese literature -- Meiji period 1868–1912 -- History and criticism; Japanese literature -- Woman authors -- History and criticism; Women authors Japanese -- Meiji period 1868–1912; Most Japanese literary historians have suggested that the Meiji Period (1868-1912) was devoid of women writers but for the brilliant exception of Higuchi Ichiyo (1872-1896). Rebecca Copeland challenges this claim by examining in detail the lives and literary careers of three of Ichiyo's peers, each representative of the diversity and ingenuity of the period: Miyake Kaho (1868-1944), Wakamatsu Shizuko (1864-1896), and Shimizu Shikin (1868-1933). |