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Egg Wada (Yokota)

Wada Ei ( Japanese 和田 英 Wada Ei , maiden name : 横 田 Yokota ; born October 8, 1857 in Nagano Prefecture , † September 26, 1929 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan ) was a Japanese textile worker and diary writer . She became known through the Tomioka diary ( 富 岡 日記 Tomioka Nikki ), in which she wrote down her life among the workers of the silk factory in Tomioka .

Life

Birthplace
Silk factory in Tomioka

On October 8, 1857, she was named Yokota Ei ( 横 田 英 Yokota Ei ) in Matsushiro (now incorporated into the city of Nagano ) in the former Japanese province of Shinano ( 信 濃 国 Shinano no kuni ) in today's Nagano Prefecture, as the second daughter of Kiyoko Yokota ( 横 田 亀 代 子 Yokota Kiyoko ) and the samurai Kazuma Yokota ( 横 田 数 馬 Yokota Kazuma ). In 1873, the sixth year of the Meiji period , young women were recruited across Japan for two to three years of practical training in the process of silk making. According to this, they should work as trainers in silk production in their provinces of origin. In 1873, 16-year-old Ei Yokota applied for this training. As early as 1874, she left the Tomioka silk factory and helped found Rokukosha , Japan's first private silk factory, which was built in Saijo Village, Tateshina-gun, Nagano Prefecture. In 1878 she married Seiji Wada ( 和田 盛 治 Wada Seiji ). From 1907 to 1912 she looked back on her days in the silk factory in Tomioka and wrote the Tomioka diary. She died on September 26, 1929. Her grave is in Renjo-ji ( 蓮 乗 寺 ) in Matsushiro City, Nagano. After her death, her son published the Tomioka diary.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ E. Patricia Tsurumi: Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan . Princeton University Press, 1992, p. 26, ISBN 978-0-691-00035-0
  2. ^ Finn, Dallas: Finn, Dallas (1995). Meiji Revisited: The Sites of Victorian Japan. Weatherhill. pp. 23f. ISBN 0-8348-0288-0 . 1995, ISBN 0-8348-0288-0 , pp. 23 f .
  3. ↑ 富 岡 日記. Retrieved November 30, 2019 (Japanese).
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Wada is the family name, Ei the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Wada, egg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 和田 英 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese diary writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Matsushiro , Nagano Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1929
Place of death Nagano Prefecture