Michi Matsuda
Michi Matsuda, from a 1923 publication.
Born1868
Kyoto
NationalityJapanese
Occupationeducator

Michi Matsuda (born 1868) also written as Matsuda Michi) was a Japanese educator, head of the Doshisha Women's College (Doshisha Joshi Senmon Gakko) from 1922 to 1933.

Early life

Michi Matsuda was born in Kyoto.[1] She went to the United States in 1893 to study,[2] beginning with two years of college preparation at Miss Stevens' school in Germantown, Pennsylvania. With a letter of recommendation from Tsuda Umeko, she attended Bryn Mawr College, earning a bachelor's degree in 1899.[3][4] She was the first student to hold the American Women's Scholarship for Japanese Women, begun by Tsuda.[5][6][7]

She returned to Bryn Mawr for further studies in economics and English, 1908 to 1910, with a scholarship from Pittsburgh Bryn Mawr Club, among other benefactors.[8] She also attended Columbia University for graduate studies in sociology, in 1910 and 1911.[9]

Career

Matsuda taught at Kobe College from 1899 to 1904.[9][10] She worked with the YWCA in Tokyo, and edited a women's journal, Meiji no Joshi, in 1907.[11]

In 1922, she became the head of the Doshisha Women's College in Kyoto.[9][12][13] She established majors in English, Music, and Food Science at Doshisha after 1930.[14] She retired from the post in 1933. "Miss Matsuda's long unbroken devotion to the college, and her noble upright personality, combined with her scholarly mind, have added one more gem to the crown of Christian womanhood", commented fellow educator Kawai Michi on the occasion of Matsuda's retirement.[15]

Matsuda served on the national committee of the YWCA in Japan, with Tsuda, Kawai, Kei Okami, and Tomo Inouye.[16][17] She was named to the Doshisha University board of trustees in 1919.[18] She was a member of the Japan branch of the Association of University Women.[19]

References

  1. ↑ "Benefit for Japanese Girl Student". The Pittsburgh Post. April 18, 1908. p. 7. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  2. ↑ "A Japanese Girl". Weekly Herald-Disseminator. Albany, Oregon. August 17, 1893. p. 5. Retrieved November 10, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ Freedman, Alisa (October 2016). "The Forgotten Story of Japanese Women Who Studied in the United States, 1949-1966" (PDF). Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon: 12–14.
  4. ↑ Pamonag, Febe (November 2012). ""A Bryn Mawr School in the East": Transpacific Initiatives for Japanese Women's Higher Education". Pacific Historical Review. 81 (4): 537–566. doi:10.1525/phr.2012.81.4.537 – via JSTOR.
  5. ↑ Bryn Mawr College. Alumnae Association (1940). Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, 1940. Special Collections Bryn Mawr College Library. Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association. pp. 28.
  6. ↑ Freedman, Alisa; Miller, Laura; Yano, Christine R. (2013-04-17). Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan. Stanford University Press. p. 198. ISBN 9780804785549.
  7. ↑ Iino, Masako. "From Japan to Bryn Mawr and Back". Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  8. ↑ "Raising Scholarship Funds for Michi Matsuda of Kioto". The Gazette Times. Pittsburgh. January 18, 1908. p. 14. Retrieved November 10, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. 1 2 3 Bryn Mawr College (1917). Register of Alumnae and Former Students. p. 192.
  10. ↑ Missions, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign (1900). Annual Report of the Work of the American Board for Foreign Missions, in Japan, Ending 1900. R. Meiklejohn & Company, printers. p. 92.
  11. ↑ "Student Federation Movement". Japan Weekly Mail. March 9, 1907. p. 251. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
  12. ↑ Charlotte Burgis DeForest, "Three Leading Educators" The Woman and the Leaven of Japan (1923): 117-118.
  13. ↑ "Timeline: About D.W.C.L.A." Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  14. ↑ Showalter, Raven Alexandra (2015). "Higher Education for Women in Japan: A Case Study of the History and Influence of Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts". Virginia Review of Asian Studies. 17: 175–192.
  15. ↑ Kawai, Michi (1934). Japanese Women Speak. Osmania University, Digital Library Of India. By The Central Committee On The United Study Of Foreign Missions. pp. 86-87.
  16. ↑ The Christian Movement in Japan. Standing Committee of Co-operating Christian Missions. 1907. pp. 164–165.
  17. ↑ The Christian Movement in Japan, Sixth Annual Issue. Methodist Publishing House. 1908. p. 277.
  18. ↑ "Bryn Mawr Girl a Pioneer". Japan Society Bulletin: 165. April 22, 1919.
  19. ↑ Talbot, Marion, and Lois Kimball Mathews Rosenberry. The History of the American Association of University Women, 1881-1931 (Houghton Mifflin 1931): 393.
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