Asa ko hirooka (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Very Good. First edition thus. Slim 8vo. 1-28 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board. Illustrated with a full-page photograph of Hirooka, and with a facsimile of a title page at the beginning of the volume. This volume contains excerpts from a weekly journal that comprise the lifestory of Asa-Ko Hirooka, a Japanese business woman and advocate for women's education. Asa-Ko witnessed revolutionary changes in Japanese society and helped to found institutions of higher learning for women. She died in the 1919 Influenza epidemic. A bump to the top two corners, a split developing in the gutter but the binding remains secure.…

preface by Ernest W. Clement. Madam Hirooka died Jan 14, 1918 very good. (to mrs Bryant with best wishes Kame Hirooka}onflylea. photo's (illustratore).