THE VALUE OF WOMEN IN MEIJI ERA IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPHERE AS REFLECTED IN JUN’ICHI WATANABE’S BEYOND THE BLOSSOMING FIELDS

Abstrak

The objective of this research is to elaborate the value of woman in Meiji Era both in Public and Private Sphere as seen in Watanabe’s Beyond the Blossoming Fields.  This novel tells about a young girl from a wealthy family. Ginko Ogino seems set for a conventional life in the male-dominated society of nineteenth-century Japan especially in Meiji era. But when she suffers gonorrhea from h