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

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

Reviews
  > Journal of Asian Studies
     by James L. Huffman

  > American Anthropologist
     by Richard Chalfen

Suggested Readings
About the Book