伊藤 野枝 (Noe Itō)

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Release Date: 2016-02

Label: Suite Mentale

Noe Itō was a Japanese anarchist, social critic, author and feminist. (January 21, 1895 - September 16, 1923)

In March 1912, Itō graduated from Ueno Girls' High School. She joined the Bluestocking Society, producer of the feminist arts-and-culture magazine "Seitō" in 1915, contributing until 1916. She practiced an inclusive attitude towards content; she "opened the pages to extended discussions of abortion, prostitution, and motherhood". Itō wrote social criticism and novels, and translated writings of Emma Goldman

In the chaos immediately following the Great Kantō earthquake on September 16, 1923, Itō, her lover/partner, and his 6-year-old nephew were arrested, beaten to death, and thrown into an abandoned well by a squad of military police led by Lieutenant Masahiko Amakasu. Noe Itō was 28 years old.