{"product_id":"the-j-333-shitai-unsung-heroines-of-the-boshin-war-paperback","title":"The J\u0026#333;shitai: Unsung Heroines of the Boshin War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSumiko Nakano\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Jōshitai: Unsung Heroines of the Boshin War - Expanded Edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Sumiko Nakano\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey weren't supposed to exist. Not officially. Not in the histories written by men with ink and authority. But when the Tokugawa order crumbled and war came to Aizu, the women of the Jōshitai didn't wait for permission. They armed themselves with naginata, short swords, and resolve-and stepped into the fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis newly updated edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Jōshitai\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a tribute. It's a reclamation. An excavation of names, faces, and legacies that history tried to erase. Based on deeper research, expanded profiles, and newly crafted visual representations of the sixteen known women, this book brings the unsilenced voices of Aizu's warrior women into full presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLed by Nakano Takeko-whose death at Yanagi Bridge became legend-the Jōshitai was an all-female combat unit formed during the Boshin War of 1868. But beyond Takeko stood her sister Yūko, the calm but deadly Hirata Kochō, the fiery Yoshi, the precise Jinbo Yukiko, the watchful strategist Okamura Makiko, the ink-stained blade Koike Chikyoku, and others whose stories remained buried in temple records, family altars, or simply silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey weren't figureheads. They weren't mascots. They fought. And many of them fell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the brutal backdrop of the siege of Aizu and the slow political erasure that followed, \u003ci\u003eThe Jōshitai\u003c\/i\u003e challenges sanitized Meiji-era mythmaking and instead restores these women as they were: real, complex, and dangerous. Some were trained samurai. Others were mothers, daughters, concubines, even farmers-who picked up weapons when the men around them lay dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book also includes a new postwar reflection on how Aizu paid the price for loyalty, how the women were written out of the restoration narrative, and why telling their story today still matters. For the first time, the known members of the Jōshitai are presented together-not as legends, but as witnesses. With newly generated portraits built from historical context, they are given back not only names but faces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you're looking for glorified folklore, this isn't it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut if you want a field report from the shadows of history, written with reverence, rage, and resolve-\u003ci\u003eThe Jōshitai\u003c\/i\u003e is waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLearn their names. Carry them forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 13, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48501703213277,"sku":"9798332969171","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/ezBWYFkIdg9798332969171.webp?v=1788494332","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-j-333-shitai-unsung-heroines-of-the-boshin-war-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}