Hiratsuka Raichō, born on this day in 1886, was an anarchist writer, journalist, political activist, and pioneering Japanese feminist. Her efforts helped legalize Japanese women joining political organizations in 1922.
Upon graduating from university, Hiratsuka founded Japan's first all-women literary magazine, Seitō (青鞜, literally "Bluestocking"), in 1911.
Hiratsuka began the first issue with the words, "In the beginning, woman was the sun", a reference to the Shinto goddess Amaterasu, and to the spiritual independence which women had lost. Adopting the pen name "Raichō" ("Thunderbird"), she began to call for a women's spiritual revolution.
Hiratsuka also founded the New Women's Association with fellow women's rights activist Ichikawa Fusae. It was largely through this group's efforts that the Article 5 of the Police Security Regulations, which barred women from joining political organizations and holding or attending political meetings, was overturned in 1922.
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Little mouse who brushed my foot,
I can't begrudge you to live.
I would let you eat the seed and scraps From my table
Until you were fit to burst.
But could you never touch me,
And set off my terrible mechanism of fear
Such that I feel I have to wash my foot
Just for the meeting of
Fur and flesh?
I would set out a little greens and
rice for you,
And you could be a companion,
But because we cannot speak,
We are set at odds.
Flee mouse.
Make your home and dinner
Where I cannot see it
So I can stay the trap
So I can not begrudge your living.
Sorry homie, I gotta make you scared cause you'll have a family here otherwise. Also I've got a cat who should be covering this for me