This Kind of Woman represents a unique collection of stories by ten of the finest modern Japanese women writers. Rich in psychological detail, these distinguished stories chronicle the profound changes that altered the fact of postwar Japanese society, as suddenly women were freed from their traditional roles and achieved new rights—with a baffling new set of contradictory demands. Here in th…
Fashion ingenue, magazine editor, kimono designer, femme fatale, prize-winning writer--Uno Chiyo has become one of twentieth-century Japan's most accomplished and celebrated women. In this two-part volume, Rebecca L. Copeland offers Western readers a fascinating portrait of Uno's life along with translations of three of her distinctive works of short fiction. Part One depicts Uno's sometimes tu…