Women and Millenarian Protest in Meiji Japan: Deguchi Nao and Omotokyō (Cornell East Asia Series)

In this detailed analysis of the life and teachings of Deguchi Nao (1837–1918) and the religion she founded, Omotokyo, Emily Ooms expands and refines our understanding of women's roles in the creation of new modes of religious thought and action in Japan. Placing Nao within a broad historical context, Ooms also shows how women's experience and consciousness of rapid socio-economic change in late nineteenth-century Japan inspired new forms of resistance and protest.

• Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan
• Organizing the Spontaneous: Citizen Protest in Postwar Japan
• In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End
• Makiko's Diary: A Merchant Wife in 1910 Kyoto
• Naomi