Takamure Itsue, Japanese Antiquity, and Matricultural Paradigms that Address the Crisis of Modernity

Relentless in her quest to dismantle patriarchy, this “woman from the Land of Fire” (a nickname for her birthplace, Kumamoto Prefecture) locked herself away in 1931 and spent the rest of her life conducting research on female-friendly societies with matrilocal arrangements under kinship-based communal systems.