Women And Wisdom of Japan

In this volume you will read what was considered proper teaching for young women in Japan over 300 years ago.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. --