Sadayo Tatewaki

Women's liberation activist and researcher of modern Japanese women's history. Born on June 7, 1904, to a small landowner in Kakeya Village, Iishi County, Shimane Prefecture (now Unnan City). Graduated from Matsue City High School of Home Economics in 1920 (Taisho 9). After three years as a substitute teacher, she moved to Tokyo, where she studied while working in a cafe and selling natto. She met members of the Shinjinkai, married a member of the same association, Akira Orimoto (1900-1954), and entered the social movement. In October 1927 (Showa 2), the National Women's Alliance was formed and she became its secretary-general. In August 1929, she opened a women's labor school in Kameido, Tokyo, for female spinning factory workers, where she worked in education, supported the Western MOS strike in 1930, and joined the Communist Youth League in 1931, during which she was arrested in 1932 while working underground. After converting and being released from prison in 1934, she began researching women's history. She was arrested again in 1944. After World War II, she became involved in writing about women's issues and women's history, and served as its representative committee member after the New Japan Women's Association was founded in 1962 (Showa 37). Her most notable works include "Problems with Working Women in Japan" and "Japanese Women."

[Inumaru Yoshikazu]

"An Autobiography of a Journey" by Obito Sadayo (1980, Kusado Bunka)" ▽ "Issues of Working Women in Japan" (1980, Domesu Publishing) ▽ "Women's Way of Life" by Obito Sadayo (Shin Nihon Shuppansha, Shin Nihon Shinsho) ▽ "Japanese Women: On the Development of the Women's Movement" (Iwanami Shinsho)

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女性解放運動家、日本近代女性史研究家。明治37年6月7日、島根県飯石(いいし)郡掛合(かけや)村（現、雲南(うんなん)市）の小地主の家に生まれる。1920年（大正9）松江市高等家政女学校卒業。代用教員3年ののち上京、カフェー勤めや納豆売りをして勉強し、新人会の会員たちと知り合い、同会員の織本侃(あきら)（1900―1954）と結婚、社会運動に入る。1927年（昭和2）10月全国婦人同盟結成で書記長となり、1929年8月東京・亀戸(かめいど)で紡績女工相手の労働女塾を開設、女工教育に従事し、1930年洋モス争議を支援、1931年共産青年同盟に参加して地下活動中1932年に検挙された。1934年転向して出獄後、女性史研究に入る。1944年再検挙。第二次世界大戦後は、女性問題、女性史の文筆活動に従事し、1962年（昭和37）新日本婦人の会結成以来代表委員をつとめた。代表的著書に『日本労働婦人問題』『日本の婦人』などがある。

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『帯刀貞代著『ある遍歴の自叙伝』（1980・草土文化）』▽『『日本労働婦人問題』（1980・ドメス出版）』▽『帯刀貞代著『女性の生き方』（新日本出版社・新日本新書）』▽『『日本の婦人――婦人運動の発展をめぐって』（岩波新書）』

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