Bakumatsu Meiji Onna Hyaku Wa Jo (Iwanami Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Following "One Hundred Stories from the Late Edo Period" and "One Hundred Stories from the Meiji Period," this collection of 100 stories was compiled by focusing on women. At that time, it was rare for the stories told by ordinary women to be published. The stories included customs, events, games, food, the true faces of celebrities, local rumors, incidents, and arts.... The anecdotes, which differ from those of men in taste and focus, are unique to women and convey a sense of a time when Edo taste had not yet died out.

『幕末百話』『明治百話』に続き、聞き取りの対象を女性にしぼって集めた百話。当時一般の女性の話したことが世に発表されることは稀であった。風俗、行事、遊び、食べ物、有名人の素顔、土地の噂、事件、芸事...男性とは趣味も着眼点も異なる、女性ならではの逸話がそろい、江戸趣味のまだ滅びない時代の息づかいを伝える。