Noe Ito

Noe Ito (伊藤 野枝, Itō Noe, born January 21, 1895 in Fukuoka, Japan; died September 16, 1923) was an anarchist, social critic, author and feminist. She graduated from Ueno Girls' High School in Ueno, Tokyo, and joined the Bluestocking Society (Seitō-sha; 青鞜社), producer of the feminist arts and culture magazine Seitō (青鞜) in 1912. Ito wrote social criticism and novels, and translated writings of Emma Goldman (Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Woman's Eman... more

Noe Ito (伊藤 野枝, Itō Noe, born January 21, 1895 in Fukuoka, Japan; died September 16, 1923) was an anarchist, social critic, author and feminist. She graduated from Ueno Girls' High School in Ueno, Tokyo, and joined the Bluestocking Society (Seitō-sha; 青鞜社), producer of the feminist arts and culture magazine Seitō (青鞜) in 1912. Ito wrote social criticism and novels, and translated writings of Emma Goldman (Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation, New York, Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1906, etc.). In the summer of her fifth-year at Ueno Girls' High School, under her uncle's management, she was married to a man named Fukutaro. Ito agreed to the marriage because Fukutaro had just returned from America, where she hoped to go. She confided in her sister that when they reached America she would run off and leave him. That never happened, and they remained in Japan. Ito's displeasure with the arrangement deepened when her husband could not support her educational interests,... less