Yagi Akiko

For the announcer, see Akiko Yagi.

In this Japanese name, the surname is Yagi.

Yagi Akiko
Born	1895
Died	1983(1983-00-00) (aged 87–88)
Occupation	Writer

Yagi Akiko (1895–1983) was a Japanese anarchist writer and activist. She wrote for anarchist women's arts journals Fujin Sensen (The Women's Front) and Nyonin Geijutsu (Women's Arts) on topics including Bolshevism,[1] the commercial commodification of women,[2] and the imperial founding of Manchukuo, a puppet state that she described as a slave, having traded one imperial ruler for another.[3] Her travelogue "Letters from a Trip to Kyushu", written with Fumiko Hayashi, tells of their drinking and meeting men, as two modern women outré for the time period.[4]

See also

• Anarchism in Japan

References

1. Mackie, Vera (2003). Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality. Cambridge University Press. pp. 247, 91. ISBN 978-0-521-52719-4.
2. Bernstein, Gail Lee (1991). Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945. University of California Press. p. 251. ISBN 978-0-520-07017-2.
3. Mackie 2003, p. 101.
4. Silverberg, Miriam (2009). Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times. University of California Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-520-26008-5.

Further reading

• Libertaire Group (1979). A Short History of the Anarchist Movement in Japan. Idea Pub. House. p. 214–.
• Mackie, Vera (July 13, 1997). Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900-1937. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-55137-3.