![]() She used her publication to thunder against the restraints the paternalistic Japanese society placed on women. Around that time she adopted the pen name Raicho, which translates as Thunderbird. In 1911 she began Japan’s first all female literary magazine, Seito, which means Bluestocking, a term that alludes to an educated, intellectual woman-a reference to the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society in England. A free thinker and advocate for the rights of women, Raicho, inspired by her Zen Buddhist faith and influenced by modern European thought and philosophy, began a life of dedication to the rights of women.Īfter graduation from the Japan Women’s University in 1906 with a home economics degree, rather than be a homemaker, she began her advocacy for Japanese women. Haru Hiratsuka, known as Raicho, was born in 1886 in Japan. They were enjoined from belonging to political organizations, and it also became illegal for them to participate in any political meetings. The same year American women could legally go to the polls for the first time, Japan enacted Article 5 of the Police Security Regulations, barring women from more than the vote. ![]()
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