| Beauty in Disarray (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2493050
Category: Book
Authors: Harumi Setouchi, Sanford Goldstein
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Studio: Tuttle Publishing
Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing
Label: Tuttle Publishing
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0804818665
EAN: 9780804818667
ASIN: 0804818665
Publication Date: August 15, 1993
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Product Description
In twenty-eight short years, Noe Ito was married three times and gave birth to seven children; she is now considered a prototype of modern feminism. No two readers will view her story the same way, but all will agree that Beauty in Disarray is a remarkable portrait of an exceptional woman.
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 This story of one woman captured me entirely July 3, 2004
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.
 Simply impossible to translate September 16, 1999
The appeal of Harumi Setouchi is her beautiful prose. It is simply impossible to translate.
A potentially interesting story poorly told July 10, 1998
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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