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*''Born: [[1811]]''
*''Died: [[1894]]''
Matsuo Taseko was a poet and ''[[kokugaku]]'' scholar.
Born the daughter of a well-off village headman in the Ina Valley in [[Shinano province]], Matsuo Taseko received a good education as a child. She was married at age 18 to a man who later became village headman himself, and eventually had ten children, seven of whom survived into adulthood. She pursued poetry throughout her life, and also grew [[silk]]worms as a way of supplementing household income.
After passing on management of the household to her son & his wife, and retiring in [[1861]] at the age of 50, Taseko began studying the writings of [[Hirata Atsutane]]. Her husband and sons supported her financially and otherwise, and in her retirement she was able to travel fairly frequently, meeting with other scholars and poets. In [[1862]], he traveled on foot to [[Kyoto]] with just one attendant and remained there for six months, becoming rather involved in [[sonno joi|Imperial loyalist]] ([[shishi|anti-shogunate]]) circles. When authorities began a purge of Hirata followers in Kyoto the following year, however, she returned home, where she housed or otherwise aided other fugitive loyalists.
In [[1869]], she returned to Kyoto, where she reconnected with former rebels such as [[Iwakura Tomomi]], for whom she then worked for a time. She died in [[1894]] and came to be celebrated among the many figures of the loyalist cause. She was granted posthumous [[court rank]] in [[1903]].
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==References==
*Marcia Yonemoto, ''The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan'', UC Press (2016), 215-216.
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*''Died: [[1894]]''
Matsuo Taseko was a poet and ''[[kokugaku]]'' scholar.
Born the daughter of a well-off village headman in the Ina Valley in [[Shinano province]], Matsuo Taseko received a good education as a child. She was married at age 18 to a man who later became village headman himself, and eventually had ten children, seven of whom survived into adulthood. She pursued poetry throughout her life, and also grew [[silk]]worms as a way of supplementing household income.
After passing on management of the household to her son & his wife, and retiring in [[1861]] at the age of 50, Taseko began studying the writings of [[Hirata Atsutane]]. Her husband and sons supported her financially and otherwise, and in her retirement she was able to travel fairly frequently, meeting with other scholars and poets. In [[1862]], he traveled on foot to [[Kyoto]] with just one attendant and remained there for six months, becoming rather involved in [[sonno joi|Imperial loyalist]] ([[shishi|anti-shogunate]]) circles. When authorities began a purge of Hirata followers in Kyoto the following year, however, she returned home, where she housed or otherwise aided other fugitive loyalists.
In [[1869]], she returned to Kyoto, where she reconnected with former rebels such as [[Iwakura Tomomi]], for whom she then worked for a time. She died in [[1894]] and came to be celebrated among the many figures of the loyalist cause. She was granted posthumous [[court rank]] in [[1903]].
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==References==
*Marcia Yonemoto, ''The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan'', UC Press (2016), 215-216.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Bakumatsu]]
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]