Sadayo Orimoto - Sadayo Orimoto

...Women's activist and women's history researcher. After working as a substitute teacher in her hometown of Shimane Prefecture, she moved to Tokyo and married Toshi Orimoto of the University of Tokyo Newcomers Association, taking the surname Orimoto. Influenced by her husband, she joined the women's movement and was active in the National Women's Alliance and the Prostitute-Free Alliance. In 1929, she opened a women's work school for female workers at the Toyo Muslin Kameido factory in Kameido, and supported the Toyo Muslin strike the following year. She was later imprisoned for her activities with the Communist Youth League. While in prison, she gradually expanded her interest to research women's history. She divorced in 1934. After the war, she joined the New Japan Women's Association. [Esashi Akiko]...

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…婦人運動家，女性史研究家。郷里の島根県で代用教員をした後上京，東大新人会の織本利と結婚し織本姓となる。夫の影響で婦人運動に入り，全国婦人同盟，無産婦人同盟で活躍。1929年亀戸に東洋モスリン亀戸工場の女子労働者を対象に労働女塾を開き，翌年の東洋モスリン争議を支援。その後共産青年同盟活動で入獄した。獄中にあるころからしだいに女性史研究に関心を広げた。34年離婚。戦後は新日本婦人の会に参加。【江刺 昭子】…

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