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Mystery of a Japanese girl wrestler – Iris Miyako
Iris Miyako was charged with stealing a lady’s half hoop diamond ring valued at £30 [worth around £4,600 now] from the Walthamstow Palace music hall dressing room of Daisy Dormer on 24th June 1908. In court, Iris claimed to be an 18 year old Japanese subject, and gave her occupation as a music hall artiste…
Substack series on Omoto
Please do subscribe to Pernille Rudlin’s Substack (currently free, but paid also welcome!), where the story of Omoto, the first Japanese woman to travel to the West is being serialised.
The Wild Men of Yesso
In December 1864, William Martin Wood (1828-1907), a British-Indian journalist, presented a paper to the Ethnological Society of London on The Hairy Men of Yesso. Yesso was the English rendering for Ezo, or Hokkaido, as it is now known. “The Hairy Men” were Wood’s description of the Ainu people, or Ainos as Wood and others…
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