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“Japan’s burgeoning era of Taisho democracy witnessed some of Japan’s most significant women thinkers. Ito Noe was a remarkable product of this era. From childhood, her philosophy was decidedly passionate, yet assured. A unique family life allowed her considerable freedom to develop her mind. Throughout life she sought the same educational opportunities and freedoms given to males. A schoolteacher introduced Ito to the "woman question." Ito became a central figure in Tokyo’s controversial feminist Bluestocking Society. Young Ito was involved in several public scandals while she wrote extensively for the Bluestockings’ Journal. She moved from women’s issues, to anarchism, becoming an integral part of the labor movement as the wife of the famous Osugi Sakae. After many journals, five children, and three husbands, she was murdered at twenty-eight years of age in an act of political frenzy”