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Kikue Yamakawa

やまかわ きくえ

Yamakawa Kikue

別名: 森田菊栄 / 青山菊栄 / 山川菊榮
ペンネーム: Kikue Morita（Birth family name (maiden name)）, Kikue Aoyama（Used the Aoyama surname after inheriting household headship）

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1890-11-03 （Yobancho, Kojimachi Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture (now Kudan-kita, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), Japan）
死没
1980-11-02 （Tokyo, Japan） 89歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Tokyo (Kojimachi / Kudan-kita)

経歴

職業
Women's issues critic, Researcher, Socialist, Labor activist, Women's rights activist, Author
活動期間
1915年〜1980年
所属
Ministry of Labor (Women and Children Bureau), Sekirankai (Socialist Women's Association)
所属団体
Japan Socialist Party, Democratic Women's Association, Japan Women's Issues Council (founding member), Sekirankai (founder)
影響を受けた人物
August Bebel, Sakai Toshihiko, Ossugi Sakae, Kōtoku Shūsui
影響を与えた人物
Postwar women's movement and women's history researchers (e.g., Yūko Suzuki and others), Scholars supported through the Yamakawa Kikue Memorial Association

学歴

Tokyo Prefectural Second Girls' Higher School (Takehaya High School)
国: Japan
Graduated from the former girls' higher school
Joshi Eigakujuku (now Tsuda University)
卒業年: 1912
国: Japan
Graduated in 1912

受賞歴

Osaragi Jiro Prize
1974
対象作品: Memoranda: The Mito Domain in the Bakumatsu Period
主催: Osaragi Jiro Prize Selection Committee
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Memoranda: The Mito Domain in the Bakumatsu Period

1974年 Social history

A social-historical study of the Mito Domain during the Bakumatsu period, written in a clear style based on family records and archival materials.

Bakumatsu (late Tokugawa period)Local historyWomen's history

Women of the Samurai Household / Women of the Mito Domain

1943年 Folklore / Social history

Based on oral histories, this work describes everyday life of samurai women as a piece of local/social history.

FolkloreWomen's historyFamily
翻訳
  • Kate Nakai (trans.), 'Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life' (University of Tokyo Press, 1992) — English translation of parts and related material.

Two Generations of Women / My Two Generations: A Semi-autobiography

1956年 Autobiography / Women's history

A semi-autobiographical account weaving her own life with her mother's, presenting personal and social history from a women's-history perspective.

AutobiographyWomen's historySocial history

全著作

  • From a Woman's Standpoint (1919)
  • Contemporary Life and Women (1919)
  • Women of the Samurai Household (1943)
  • Memoranda: The Mito Domain in the Bakumatsu Period (1974)

翻案

  • Documentary 'Sisters, First Learn to Doubt: The Thought and Activities of Kikue Yamakawa' (dir. Chieko Yamagami, 2011)
  • Stage play 'Let the Day the Mountain Moves Come' (written/directed by Kiyoko Agasa, premiered 2007)

作家による翻訳

  • August Bebel, 'Woman and Socialism' (translated by Kikue Yamakawa, 1923)
  • Richard Grelling, 'The Judgment of the War' (translated by Kikue Yamakawa, 1917)

作品の翻訳

  • 'Women of the Samurai Household' — English translation: 'Women of the Mito Domain' (Kate Nakai, 1992)
  • Selected works translated into French and included in 'Japon colonial 1880-1930' (2014)

作風・主題

文体
AnalyticalLogical and clear prosePlainly written based on historical sources
頻出モチーフ
Women's liberationLabor and wagesCritique of family systemsLocal history and folklore

評価・遺産

Kikue Yamakawa introduced a critical, scholarly perspective to Japan's women's movement, contributed to theorizing socialist feminism and strengthening women's labor activism. After her death, memorial prizes and collections were established; her work continues to influence women's history and feminist scholarship.

記念館・博物館

  • Yamakawa Kikue Collection Kanagawa Prefectural Women's Center (Enoshima), later transferred to Kanagawa Prefectural Library 1988年開館

関連学会

  • Yamakawa Kikue Memorial Association
  • Japan Women's Issues Council

資料所蔵先

  • Yamakawa Kikue Collection (held at Kanagawa Prefectural Library)

大衆文化への影響

  • Documentary 'Sisters, First Learn to Doubt' (2011)
  • Stage play 'Let the Day the Mountain Moves Come' (2007)
  • Appears as a character in Asako Yuzuki's 'Rantan' (2021)

豆知識

  • She produced the first complete Japanese translation of August Bebel's 'Woman and Socialism'.
  • In 1947 she became the first director of the Women and Children Bureau at the Ministry of Labor (served until 1951).
  • In 1974 she won the Osaragi Jiro Prize for 'Memoranda: The Mito Domain in the Bakumatsu Period'.
  • In 1981 the Yamakawa Kikue Prize (a research grant for women's issues) was established by a fund from her family to honor her legacy.
  • The Yamakawa Kikue Collection opened in 1988 at the Kanagawa Prefectural Women's Center and was transferred to the Kanagawa Prefectural Library in 2015.