Oku Mumeo addressing a mixed crowd of men and women at the Jiyūgaoka Station, a local train stop in Tokyo, October 1948. Her banner says, "Solidarity," and although she had been elected the prior year to the Upper House of Parliament, she was speaking on behalf of the newly formed Shufuren, or Housewives' Federation, and was in the early stages of formulating her philosophy of Kitchen Politics.

Oku Mumeo. Nobi Akaakato: Oku Mumeo jiden (The Plains are Ablaze: Autobiography of Oku Mumeo). Tokyo: Domesu Shuppan, 1988.