Published in 2004 by the Feminist Press at the City University of New York, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5406, New York, NY 10016
Originally published in 1940 by Modern Age Books, New York. This edition published by arrangement with Ishigaki Memorial Hall.
Afterword © 2004 by Yi-Chun Tricia Lin and Greg Robinson
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ishigaki, Ayako, 1903–1996
Restless wave: my life in two worlds, a memoir / by Ayako Tanaka Ishigaki; afterword by Yi-chun Tricia Lin and Greg Robinson.— 1st Feminist Press ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: New York: Modern Age Books, Inc., 1940.
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AC146.I73233 2004
305.48’8956073’092—dc2 2003023263
Publication of this book was supported by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The author wishes to express her deep appreciation for the invaluable literary assistance of Genevieve Blane Birk.
She also wishes to thank Kimi Gengo, Dorothy Colby, Rose Black, and Rae Heim. The author is grateful to Cokesbury Press for permission to quote from Songs from the Slums, Toyohiko Kagawa, 1935.
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The Narikin and the Rice Riot 1919
by Yi-Chun Tricia Lin and Greg Robinson
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