Higuchi Ichiyo’s writing depicts woman seemingly accurate to her time period, women the time were seen as nothing but objects and caretakers. Women were there to support the man as he is the head of the household Higuchi Ichiyo shined a light on the reality on how women were treated and out of necessity choose to stay with their husbands no matter how bad the environment is. In ” The Thirteenth Night” Oseki is seen as a doting housewife who is supported by her husband but she is verbally abused constantly. She is ready to leave him but after one talk with her father she was convinced to stay with her husband for her kid and her family who were benefiting from Oseki’s marriage to Isamu. Even after she saw a glimmer of hope when meeting someone from her past Roku who she desired to run away with but resisted for the sake of her duties as a wife, mother and daughter.
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I agree the time range was pretty accurate and the fact was that women had to support their men