Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals: 36 Great Women before 1400 - Season 1 Episode 33 Abutsu Follows the Way of Poetry
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Though we don’t know her birth name, the woman who would come to be called Abutsu used her talents as a writer to make her fortune in a time of immense change for Japan. Under the new regime of Confucianism, women saw their freedoms curtailed and their opportunities limited, but Abutsu found a path to influence through the “Way of Poetry.”