Towards the end of the Jiyu Minken Movement, a dispute over participation in the Osaka Incident provided the occasion for Kitamura Tokoku's departure from politics, his meeting with Ishizaka Mina, and his subsequent conversion to Christianity and rebirth as a writer. These are familiar facts. What is not so well understood, however, is what Christianity meant to Ishizaka Mina. Meeting with Mina led Tokoku to conceive an image of the eternal woman. Although he was to be disillusioned in life, Tokoku nevertheless said that "Love is the secret principle of life." What did he mean? What happens if we consider these matters, not simply from Tokoku's point of view, but from Mina's-she was, after all, an independent human being. The age pressed dreams upon her, dreams which flowered in her meeting with Tokoku, dreams which shattered all too soon. Mina poured her energies into her one child, Fusako thwarted again she turned to translation. What thoughts flitted through her mind as she translated Socho no Wakare(The Parting of the Buttermes) into English ?
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