Word: ishimoto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really Katsunori Tamai, known to a highbrow handful of Japanese readers for his The Warship on the Mountain, The Fish with Poison, for which in the past two years he has won Japan's highest Akutagawa Prize for literature. Translater is pacifist Birth-Controller Baroness Shidzué Ishimoto, who translated the book out of "deep devotion to my country...
Last week Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee's tireless 31-year campaign to make birth control legitimate in the U. S. passed another successful milestone. Three years ago Mrs. Sanger's good Japanese friend, Baroness Shizue Ishimoto, sent Mrs. Sanger's good Manhattan friend, Dr. Hannah Mayer Stone, 120 rubber pessaries. Dr. Stone intended to try the devices on 120 women clients of the Manhattan Birth Control Bureau, first and busiest of 283 similar centres now disseminating information and supplies in 42 states. U. S. customs officials promptly confiscated the pessaries under the Tariff...
FACING TWO WAYS-Baroness Shidzué Ishimoto-Farrar & Rinehart...
When Shidzué Ishimoto was born in Tokyo at the turn of the century, the life of a woman of the samurai class was confined to a rigid pattern, from which deviation was instantly punished. She could expect to lead a sheltered life, become accomplished in penmanship, drawing, ethics, the three forms of bowing, the elaborate and agonizing rules for entertaining at dinner, the equally elaborate rules for serving tea, the subtle and difficult art of arranging flowers in vases. She could expect her parents to arrange her marriage, to be dominated throughout it by her husband and her mother...
...imagination with tales of Lincoln, Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale. When Shidzué, at 18, was married, she found that her husband was far more deeply dissatisfied with feudal customs and restraints than she had been. Head of a wealthy and powerful family, a Christian humanist, young Baron Ishimoto became a mining engineer, took his inexperienced bride to the grimy coal fields of western Japan. There they lived for two and a half years on an equal footing with other employes, housed in a miserable thatched hut, on the Baron's salary of $25 per month. Shidzu...