Kanno Sugako

Kanno Sugako.

Kanno Sugako ( Japanese 管野須賀子 ; * 1881 in Osaka ; † January 25, 1911 ), also called Kanno Suga , was a Japanese anarchist feminist journalist .

biography

Early life

Kanno Sugako was born in Osaka in 1881. Her father, Kanno Yoshihige, owned a successful mining business that went bankrupt when Kanno was eight or nine years old. Kanno's mother died when she was ten years old. Her father remarried, and her new stepmother was abusive towards Kanno. Her stepmother allegedly got a miner to rape her at the age of 15, which traumatized her. She had a younger sister named Hide and a younger brother.

Kanno's first contact with socialism was an essay by Sakai Toshihiko in which Sakai urged rape victims not to blame themselves for this. The essay motivated her to read more of Sakai, which stimulated her interest in more socialist literature.

In September 1899, at the age of 17, Kanno married Komiya Fukutaro, a member of a Tokyo merchant family. Kanno felt no attraction for her new husband, but the marriage allowed her to escape harassment from her stepmother. Kanno was less interested in business than in writing. When her stepmother left the family, she returned to Osaka in 1902 to take care of her father.

Writing and activism

In June 1908, Kanno attended a rally known as the Red Flag Incident . Songs were sung and red flags were waved and there were arguments with the police who wanted to break up the meeting. The leaders of the congregation were arrested. Kanno went to the police station to inquire about their whereabouts and discovered that they had been tortured. She was also arrested and held for two months. Kanno is the author of a series of articles on gender discrimination and a defender of freedom and equal rights for men and women.

The treason affair

In 1910 the Japanese government charged her with treason for her alleged involvement in the so-called high treason affair Taigyaku Jiken . Kanno was hanged on January 25, 1911 at the age of 29. She was the first woman with political prisoner status to be executed in the history of modern Japan.

bibliography

Anarkowic, Stefan. (1994) Against the god emperor: the anarchist treason trials in Japan. Kate Sharpley Library. 40p.
Cronin, Joseph. (2014) The Life of Seinosuke: Dr. Oishi and the High Treason Incident : Second Edition. White Tiger Press.
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. 2001-2006 by Macmillan Reference USA, an imprint of the Gale Group.
Hane, Mikiso. (1988) Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Voices of Japanese Rebel Women . New York: Pantheon Books and University of Berkeley.
Mackie, Vera. (1997) Creating socialist women in Japan: Gender, Labor, and Activism, 1900-1937 . New York: Cambridge University Press.
Mae, Michiko. "The nexus of nation, culture and gender in modern Japan: The resistance of Kanno Sugako and Kaneko Fumiko". Edited by Andrea Germer, Vera C. Mackie, and Ulrike Wöhr. Translated by Leonie Stickland. In Gender, nation and state in modern Japan. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2014.
Raddeker, Hélène. (1998) Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan: Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies . Routledge.
Sievers, Sharon L. (1983) Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan . Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Oya, Wataru. (1989) Kanno Suga to Tsonokami Tsuyuko . Osaka. Toho Shuppan.
Itoya, Toshio. (1970) Kanno Suga: Heiminsha no Fujin Kakumei Kazo . Iwanami Shinsho, 740.226p

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Individual evidence

^ Oya, 1989.
↑ Mikiso Hane: Reflections On the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan . University of California Press and Pantheon Books, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0520084217 , p. 51.
^ Sharon Sievers: Flowers in the Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan . Stanford University Press, Stanford 1983, ISBN 0804711658 , p. 141.
↑ Mikiso Hane: Reflections On the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan . University of California Press and Pantheon Books, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0520084217 , pp. 51-52.
^ "Kanno Suga" from Encyclopedia of Modern Asia .
^ Sharon Sievers: Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan . Stanford University Press, Stanford 1983, ISBN 0804711658 , pp. 154-155.
^ Sharon Sievers: Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan . Stanford University Press, Stanford 1983, ISBN 0804711658 , p. 139.
↑ Vera Mackie: Creating socialist women in Japan: Gender, Labor and Activism, 1900-1937 . Cambridge University Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0521551374 , p. 151.

personal data
SURNAME	Kanno, Sugako
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kanno, Suga; 管野スガ (Japanese); 管野須賀子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese anarchist feminist journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Osaka
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 1911

[1] Oya, 1989.

[2] Mikiso Hane: Reflections On the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan . University of California Press and Pantheon Books, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0520084217 , p. 51.

[:2-3] Sharon Sievers: Flowers in the Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan . Stanford University Press, Stanford 1983, ISBN 0804711658 , p. 141.

[4] Mikiso Hane: Reflections On the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan . University of California Press and Pantheon Books, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0520084217 , pp. 51-52.

[5] "Kanno Suga" from Encyclopedia of Modern Asia .

[6] Sharon Sievers: Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan . Stanford University Press, Stanford 1983, ISBN 0804711658 , pp. 154-155.

[7] Sharon Sievers: Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan . Stanford University Press, Stanford 1983, ISBN 0804711658 , p. 139.

[8] Vera Mackie: Creating socialist women in Japan: Gender, Labor and Activism, 1900-1937 . Cambridge University Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0521551374 , p. 151.