いのちのことば社・フォレストブックス
2015年後期連続テレビ小説「あさが来た」のヒロイン・あさのモデル、広岡浅子の生涯、ゆかりの地、ゆかりの人、証し。決してあきらめない「九転び十起き」の精神で生き抜いた女性実業家。彼女が生涯の最期で大切にしたものとは。(旅する。シリーズ2020)
ページ数:96頁
判型:四六変型判
ISBN:978-4-264-03311-0
2020_tabi
Journey With Asako
(Asako to Tabisuru)
Forest Books
Illustrated documentary on the life of Asako Hirooka (1849-1919), the model for the heroine of an NHK TV drama called “Asa ga Kita.” A daughter of the wealthy commercial Mitsui family in Edo era Osaka, she was an entrepreneur who, during the Meiji and Taisho eras, developed financial services for women (when women did not engage in business) that eventually became an insurance company and a bank. She studied at a women’s college in Tokyo and became a women’s rights activist. At age 60 she became a Christian and promoted the YWCA and engaged in evangelism. B6* size, 96 pp.