In this volume you will read what was considered proper teaching for young women in Japan over 300 years ago, it was published
in 1909.
The Onna Daigaku, or the " Greater Learning for Women," which is the text of this little book, is, as its title indicates, a half-dogmatised precept exclusively intended for women. The author
is Kaibara Ekken, the famous moralist of Japan, who flourished about three hundred years ago. Kaibara Ekken was a great scholar of Japanese literature, with an immense knowledge of Chinese ethics.
In this volume you will read what was considered proper teaching for young women in Japan over 300 years ago, it was published
in 1909.
The Onna Daigaku, or the " Greater Learning for Women," which is the text of this little book, is, as its title indicates, a half-dogmatised precept exclusively intended for women. The author
is Kaibara Ekken, the famous moralist of Japan, who flourished about three hundred years ago. Kaibara Ekken was a great scholar of Japanese literature, with an immense knowledge of Chinese ethics.