Hiratsuka Raichō

thumb|Hiratsuka Raichō Hiratsuka Raichō (平塚 らいちょう, transliterated らいてう according to the historical kana orthography; born Hiratsuka Haru, 平塚 明; February 10, 1886 – May 24, 1971) was a Japanese writer, journalist, political activist, anarchist, and pioneering feminist in Japan. Quotes Passion! Passion! We live by this and nothing else. Passion is the power of prayer. The power of will. The power of Zen meditation. The power of the way of the gods. Passion, in other words, is the power of spiritual concentration. And spiritual concentration is the one and only gateway to the realm of mystery and wonder. In The Beginning Woman Was The Sun (『元始、女性は太陽であった』, Genshi, josei wa taiyō de atta), first published 1971-1973; translated by Teruko Craig in In the Beginning, Woman was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist 2010 Columbia University Press 978-0-231-13813-0 157 https://www.google.com/books/edition/In_the_Beginning_Woman_was_the_Sun/h4O-AwAAQBAJ?hl=en-419&gbpv=1&pg=PA157 External links Raicho Hiratsuka New Japan Women's Association Hiratsuka Raichō at Google Scholar Hiratsuka Raichō at ResearchGate Hiratsuka Raichō at JSTOR Category:1886 births Category:1971 deaths Category:Translators from Japan Category:Anarcha-feminists Category:Anarcho-pacifists Category:Anarchists from Japan Category:Women authors from Japan Category:Authors from Japan Category:People from Tokyo Category:Women born in the 1880s