Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals: 36 Great Women before 1400. Episode 33, Abutsu Follows the Way of Poetry
Great Courses, The, film director2019 - 2020
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Though we don't know her birth name, the woman who would come to be called Abutsu used her talents as a writer to make her fortune in a time of immense change for Japan. Under the new regime of Confucianism, women saw their freedoms curtailed and their opportunities limited, but Abutsu found a path to influence through the "Way of Poetry."
Main title:
Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals: 36 Great Women before 1400. Episode 33, Abutsu Follows the Way of Poetry
Creator:
Great Courses, The, film director
Date Published:
2019 - 2020
Language:
English
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