"SHIJUYONICHI".("For More Than Forty Days,"1910)is a remarkable text written by Mizuno Senko, a young woman writer active in the closing years of the Meiji period and the first half of the Taisho era. The text is a narrative account of the inscription, literal and figurative, of women's bodies.
History
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in The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan