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Harumi Setouchi (Author), Sanford Goldstein (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Tuttle Publishing (Mar 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0804818665
  • ISBN-13: 978-0804818667
  • Product Dimensions: 18 x 11 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Noe Ito came of age during Japan's Taisho era (1912-26), a period of widespread unrest and radical change. Beauty in Disarray is Ito's thrilling story. Her life touches on emotions including alienation, rebellion, passion and persecution, all in twenty-eight short years. She was married three times and gave birth to seven children; she was at the centre of a scandal when another woman stabbed her lover because he had started living with Ito. Harumi Setouchi has created a remarkable portrait of an exceptional woman. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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WHEN I THOUGHT of going to Hakata, it was merely out of a desire to stand upon the seashore at Imajuku, noted for its beautiful pine grove at Iki-no-Matsubara. Read the first page
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2.0 out of 5 stars A potentially interesting story poorly told 10 July 1998
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Setouchi recreates a moment in Japan's Taisho period when radical C20 ideas were being first explored - feminism, socialism, anarchism, free love and all the ususal suspects. Taking the feminist magazine "Seito" as her canvas, Setouchi sketches the incidents, affairs and ideas of its leading members, particularly country girl/coquette Ito Noe. Bizarrely, however, Setouchi writes an introductory chapter which summarises the events of the period she is going to cover, depriving her subsequent story of any suspense or tension. Even more strangely, her story stops before the most interesting incidents she has telegraphed start. Overall, one for dedicated Japanophiles or social historians only.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This story of one woman captured me entirely 3 July 2004
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Indeed there is an introduction explaining the circumstances of the time, which anyone can skip if they like. The ending at the climatic point which is before the ending we know of the real story is a rather Japanese thing to do, perhaps, and I have read enough Japanese pieces not to mind this style. Within those bounds, this is a detailed and engaging portrait of the erratic, fantastic course of one fairly wild woman's life within an extreme political climate and a time of huge social change. The heroine is anything but perfect, but her story captured me, and in fact greatly changed the direction of a panel I am presenting on Japanese women authors. Enough to make me seek out other works by Setouchi without hesitation.
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2.0 out of 5 stars A potentially interesting story poorly told 10 July 1998
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Setouchi recreates a moment in Japan's Taisho period when radical C20 ideas were being first explored - feminism, socialism, anarchism, free love and all the ususal suspects. Taking the feminist magazine "Seito" as her canvas, Setouchi sketches the incidents, affairs and ideas of its leading members, particularly country girl/coquette Ito Noe. Bizarrely, however, Setouchi writes an introductory chapter which summarises the events of the period she is going to cover, depriving her subsequent story of any suspense or tension. Even more strangely, her story stops before the most interesting incidents she has telegraphed start. Overall, one for dedicated Japanophiles or social historians only.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Simply impossible to translate 16 Sep 1999
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The appeal of Harumi Setouchi is her beautiful prose. It is simply impossible to translate.
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