New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. "This book is fascinating for the light it sheds on a single family of the upper-middle social class in Meiji Japan, and on the formative factor that led Hiratsuka Raichō to her later endeavors. The translation is excellent: it reads smoothly, and Craig seems able to convey Hiratsuka's individual voice."- Laurel Rasplica Rodd, University of Colorado.