Learning from Makiko

Background materials to accompany the video program Makiko's New World

Chronology of the Meiji Period, 1868-1912

Essays
  > Diaries, the Individual, and the Family by Anne Walthall

  > The Documentary Virtues of Makiko's Diary by Yuuko Nishikawa

  > Translating a Life by Kazuko Smith

  > About My Mother's Diary from Her Younger Days by Takashi Nakano

  > Making the Video  by David W. Plath and Kay Ikeda

Reviews
  > by James L. Huffman, originally published in Journal of Asian Studies 

  > by Richard Chalfen, originally published in American Anthropologist

Suggested Readings

About the Book

Program Script
Visual Sources: List of stills and clips
Key Words: Glossary of Japanese terms
Credits