| | 1 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Marriage of Okiku-San  | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Miss Kiku Taguchi was not an ordinary young lady. Her
father, a pompous, important individual, entertained a
distinct contempt for her insignificant sex. His wife was a
mere nonentity, a puppet, who vaguely repeated, parrot-like,
the paradoxes voiced by her lord. Hence, when this same lord
emphatically expressed his opinion concerning the proper
education for a female—this within twelve hours after the
birth of Okiku-san, Lady Taguchi assented, and promised
things. The result was a girl of naturally independent and
original disposition, trammeled by the contracted rules
common for women in Japan half a century before. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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