Amenorrhea

🪞The Murasaki Shikibu Prize-winning poetess dissects her life, bravely venturing into the world and engaging in bloodshed: living with a fighting spirit and creating. Ito herself has a relatively legendary life. She suffered from anorexia at age 20, depression at 35, divorced, moved to the United States in her 40s, and cohabited with an American painter at 55. She has three daughters, all of whom are still in the US. The eldest daughter became pregnant out of wedlock and became a grandmother with style, like Ms. Bilu Mei. Before her father's death, she traveled back and forth between California and Kumamoto, Japan every month. After his death, she did Zumba every day, lost four kilograms, and was able to fit into jeans again.
In the second half of her life, the way she chose to live was to rush forward, take a gamble, do it, miss it, and try again!
🩸📢Amenorrhea = Necessity, but Age ≠ Shame Challenge the stigma of aging, tear apart the taboos of the flesh, and face the pain and joy of the second half of life. "Everyone, everyone, will grow old!"
Ito does not only write about amenorrhea in this book. With the delicate, humorous and vivid brushstrokes unique to female poets, she writes about every corner of life. The fundamental topic is still the body and life of women before and after menopause, and the relationship between all of us who are or will be old and various people and things.
Aging, amenorrhea, caring for the bereavement of a loved one, loss of sexual allure, unreducible excess weight and uncontrolled menopause... Ito openly and beautifully confronts the embarrassment and unspeakable secrets of being a woman, writing without taboos and with a smile through her tears about the intimate experiences that all women must go through:
Our mothers, our sisters, ourselves—everyone, everyone, will experience amenorrhea!
📬 is a heartfelt confession from a woman to a girl, a tender letter from your future self to your present self. It's a healing book dedicated to mothers and a rallying song for all women battling life. "We are women covered in wounds. Whether old acquaintances or new girlfriends, we are all bathed in blood and scarred. Those with children hurt for their children; those with living parents hurt for their parents; those with husbands, men are the culprits; those without husbands also have their own pain. We are exhausted, broken physically and mentally, yet when the new sun rises, we stand up calmly and do what needs to be done. Even at ordinary times, we don't even notice the scars we're covered in.
I want to convey my feelings to my girlfriends, and this is the motivation for me to keep writing."
Being a woman, a mother, a daughter, a wife... The innate gender roles, the multiple identities imposed by society, and the gaps between self-perception and self-realization are all things women must bridge physically and psychologically. This book may help us better understand mothers' lives, their suffering, and their illnesses. It may also offer a glimpse into our future lives, freeing us from fear and unnecessary shame through shared bodily experiences.
❤️‍🩹Translated by the new translator Lake Resonance × Xi and Miaoqu Design have the same life experience and the same emotions of sorrow and joy. The translator Lake Resonance translated it with a refreshing style and sincere emotions.
In terms of visual presentation, designer Xihe chose the work "Grapefruit" by Japanese illustrator Chisato Oda. The handwritten title of the book is chic and unrestrained, the paperback has double covers, the outer cover is printed on special paper in a special color, and the inner text is printed on Swedish light paper, which is easy to read and delicate and eye-friendly.
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Why do these issues, such as childcare, independence, caregiving, and marital relationships, seem to arise so frequently at this age? Her scarred body, fighting like a lion, is truly a story of a woman's struggle with life. The ultimate paean to old ladies!
—Chizuko Ueno looked back at the path she had walked (one I had also trod), and felt only a deep resonance and an amusing aftertaste. I, too, had brilliantly joined the ranks of the "women," and with a fierce determination, I made up my mind.
—Mitsuo Kakuta: The period before and after menopause is the fleeting beauty of a woman's life. Even the poet's menstrual blood is multicolored.
—Setouchi Jakuten: Everything Ito Hirumi or my mother experienced in middle age—except for the menopause—I would also experience the rest. What I didn't expect was that, seemingly bound by physiology, family, and various conventions, their bodies deeply buried a freedom unknown to me, a freedom that was both turbulent and difficult.
——Liao Weitang [Introduction]
"Beautiful or not, damn it. Getting older means freedom, a whole new kind of freedom."
Japanese poet Ito uses honesty, humor, and rawness (48 essays) to share the physiological and psychological changes, joys, sorrows, and emotions that women experience before and after menopause. Women of this age not only face physical changes: body shape change, wrinkles, and menopause, but also the imminent collapse of their families: aging parents, the long hours of arduous care, and a relationship that fluctuates between rupture and reconciliation; children gradually becoming independent and losing their closeness; and relationships with husbands gradually cooling...
Women's bodies age much faster than their souls. Amenorrhea is a dislocated journey of laughter and tears. The second half of life is a process of gritting one's teeth and overcoming one embarrassing thing after another.

2022-07-01

广西师范大学出版社

240

9787559849977