Nishigori in Kirisutokyo Sekai :From a Religious Writer to an Activist on the Home Front

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  • 『基督教世界』における錦織久良―宗教文芸家から銃後の婦人へ
  • Nishigori in Kirisutokyo Sekai : From a Religious Writer to an Activist on the Home Front

Abstract

Kura Nishigori (1889–1949) was a Christian writer and women’s activist.She first encountered Christianity through a friend while at Nagaoka Women’s Normal School and later studied at Kyoritsu Women’s Theological Seminary with the intention of becoming an evangelist. While a student at Nagaoka Women’s Normal School, Nishigori wrote tanka poems and articles on women’s issues, such as the abolition of prostitution for Kirisutokyo Sekai and Fujin Shimpo, the journal of The Japan Christian Women’s Organization. In her 40s, she became the chairperson of the Political and Legal Affairs Department of The Federation of Women’s Societies of Western Japan, which is said to have had over 3 million members, and served as the chairperson at its annual conference for over 10 years. Nishigori’s activities as a Christian writer and women’s activist took place in the 1930s, a time of heightened militarism. 　In my previous article, I examined Nishigori’s writings in Fujin Shimpo and clarified the origin of her Christian faith and women’s movement activities, based mainly on her early writings. As a sequel, this paper examines aspects of her views on faith and women, focusing on her writings in Kirisutokyo Sekai, which were mainly written in the mid–1930s, and clarifies how she, as a religious writer, gradually took on the role of an activist on the home front during the war.

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