Books / Reviews Jun 16, 2013

Historical biography captures the spirit of early feminist Japan

by Kris Kosaka

Time distorts, concealing the individual drops of humanity within the great tide of history. "Beauty in Disarray" attempts to reveal one such individual threatened to be lost in time, a woman named Noe Ito. In telling Ito's tragic story, biographer Harumi Setouchi (now known ...