著者

Barcus Faith Nobuko

出版者

昭和女子大学女性文化研究所

雑誌

昭和女子大学女性文化研究所紀要 = Bulletin of the Institute of Women's Culture, Showa Women's University (ISSN:09160957)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.34, pp.97-111, 2007-03-31

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Ikuko Araki, in the 1913 photo with the members of Seito-sha, a newly organized feminist group, looks like an innocent little dreamy-eyed girl. She is my aunt, and the elder sister of my father Toichiro Araki. How did this sweet and innocent looking woman come to be labeled in the Japanese news media as a "notorious" playgirl, and wanton woman who defied convention? And how did it happen that years later she was referred to as the magnanimous Kohkuh Bokan (aircraft carrier) that reached out to so many?