Yagi Akiko Explained

Yagi Akiko
Birth Date:	1895
Occupation:	Writer

Yagi Akiko (1895–1983) was a Japanese anarchist writer and activist. She wrote for anarchist women's arts journals Fujin Sensen (The Women's Front) and Nyonin Geijutsu (Women's Arts) on topics including Bolshevism,^[1] the commercial commodification of women,^[2] and the imperial founding of Manchukuo, a puppet state that she described as a slave, having traded one imperial ruler for another. Her travelogue "Letters from a Trip to Kyushu", written with Fumiko Hayashi, tells of their drinking and meeting men, as two modern women outré for the time period.^[3]

See also

• Anarchism in Japan

Further reading

• Book: Libertaire Group. A Short History of the Anarchist Movement in Japan. 1979. Idea Pub. House. mdy-all. 214–.
• Book: Mackie. Vera. Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900-1937. 1997-07-13. en. Vera Mackie. 978-0-521-55137-3. Cambridge University Press. mdy-all.

Notes and References

1. Book: Mackie, Vera. Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality. 2003. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-52719-4. 247, 91.
2. Book: Bernstein, Gail Lee. Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945. 1991. University of California Press. 978-0-520-07017-2. 251.
3. Book: Silverberg, Miriam. Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times. 2009. University of California Press. 978-0-520-26008-5. 63.