Ichikawa Fusae emerges from her country retreat as the war ends in August 1945. She is dressed in monpei, wartime baggy trousers for women. She would shortly resume her fight for women’s rights and set up a women’s election hall in August 1946. However, as a political purgee and from 1947 to 1950 she was unable to run for political office herself.

From: Ichikawa Fusae to fujin sanseiken undō: Ichikawa Fusae seitan 100-nen kinen. Tokyo: Ichikawa Fusae Kinenkai Shuppanbu, 1992; 49.

Ichiokunin no Shōwa shi (Shōwa History of One Hundred Million). Vol. 3. Sandai no onna tachi (Three Generations of Women). Part Two. Shōwa sengo hen (After the War). Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, June 1981.