#Kaneko Fumiko

[coyotegirl-domestic-terrorism]

Although I had once pinned all my hopes on putting myself through school, believing I could thereby make something of myself, I now realized the futility of this all too clearly. No amount of struggling for an education is going to help one get ahead in this world. And what does it mean to get ahead anyway? is there any more worthless lot than the so-called great people of this world? What is so admirable about being looked up to by others? I do not live for other. What I had to achieve was my own freedom, my own satisfaction. I had to be myself.

-Kaneko Fumiko

[autonomoustweekazoid]

"And for those representatives of power who trample upon the lives of the naturally equal humans on the earth, those lumps of meat equal to lumps of dirt called the Emperor and Crown Prince, the poor people they’ve deceived give them an exaggerated holiness and provide them superior, inviolate positions while they’re being exploited. And it’s there that I wanted to show the people clearly that those being impressed upon them then as sacred inviolate power, the Emperor and Crown Prince, are in truth empty lumps of meat among lumps of meat, nothing but puppets, to show those being exploited that they’re nothing more than marionettes and foolish dummies used by the privileged few to enrich themselves by deceiving the people who serve as their source of wealth, and through this to show that the mountain of long-held traditions that bestow the Emperor with divinity are purely empty superstitions."

- Kaneko Fumiko

Because I Wanted To

Translated by the homie Max Res of Viscera Providence (now Viscera Philly)

[tasteforrot]

“It’s no good, I go on living only because I don’t seem to be able to die.”

[simonxriley]

Skylar "Phoenix" Jackson (r6s) | Liz Walker (CoD) Himiko Nakamoto (Demon Slayer) | Fumiko Nakamoto (Demon Slayer) Naho Kaneko (mha) | Aoi (mha) Kai'Sa Blake (aot) | Redacted (Spy x Family)

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Tagging @nightbloodbix @voidika @nightwingshero @shegetsburned @jinfromyarikawa @river-ward and whoever else wants a go at it!!

[guahua]

so-called “objectionable photograph” (Fumiko Kaneko and Pak Yol), taisho era (1912-1916)

"Fumiko Kaneko (金子 文子, Kaneko Fumiko, January 25, 1903 – July 23, 1926) or rarely Park Fumiko and Park Munja, was a Japanese anarchist and nihilist. She was convicted of plotting to assassinate members of the Japanese Imperial family."

"Pak Yol (1902–1974, born Pak Jun-sik) or Bak Yeol, was a Korean anarchist and independence activist who was convicted of high treason in Japan for conspiring to attack the Imperial House of Japan."

(via wikipedia)

[xeraph2501]

As for the significance of my nihilism… in a word, it is the foundation of my thoughts. The goal of my activities is the destruction of all living things. I feel boundless anger against parental authority, which crushed me under the high-sounding name of parental love, and against state and social authority, which abused me in the name of universal love.

Having observed the social reality that all living things on earth are incessantly engaged in a struggle for survival, that they kill each other to survive, I concluded that if there is an absolute, universal law on earth, it is the reality that the strong eat the weak. This, I believe, is the law and truth of the universe. Now that I have seen the truth about the struggle for survival and the fact that the strong win and the weak lose, I cannot join the ranks of the idealists and adopt an optimistic mode of thinking which dreams of the construction of a society that is without authority and control. As long as all living things do not disappear from the earth, the power relations based on this principle [of the strong crushing the weak] will persist. Because the wielders of power continue to defend their authority in the usual manner and oppress the weak – and because my past experience has been a story of oppression by all sources of authority – I decided to deny the rights of all authority, rebel against them, and stake not only my own life but that of all humanity on this endeavor.

For this reason I planned eventually to throw a bomb and accept the termination of my life. I did not care whether this act would touch off a revolution or not. I am perfectly content to satisfy my own desires. I do not with to help create a new society base on a new authority in a different form.

Fumiko Kaneko /interrogation transcripts

[eatizabella]

Because I Wanted To KANEKO FUMIKO on nihilism and why she wanted to kill the Emperor of Japan

"I had imagined that socialists were people that rose above the meaningless customs and morality of the society. I imagined them to be courageous fighters with no interest in so-called fame and honor and social reputation. I thought they were warriors fighting to destroy the perverted society of today and striving to create an ideal society. However, even though they denounce the irrational and hypocritical aspects of the society, and pretend that they are indifferent to social criticisms and to fame and reputation, they in fact are governed by and are concerned about the standards of the mundane society. They seek to adorn themselves with conventional ornaments, and take upon themselves conventional values. Just as generals take pride in the medals on their chests, socialists covet records of arrests in order to earn their bread. They take pride in this. When I realized this fact I gave up on them.

I also came to be appalled at the somnolence of the peasants, who are mired in pain but feel no pain, and the ignorance of the workers, who work diligently while they are being devoured to their bones. If the chains that bind them are removed, they are likely to go to the wielders of political and economic power with their chains and beg them to chain them up again. Perhaps they will be happier if they are allowed just to sleep in ignorance. So I got disgusted at all the currents of thought and from the spring of 1922 tightly embraced the nihilistic beliefs I hold today."

[coyotegirl-domestic-terrorism]

My job is tearing down everything that currently exists.

Kaneko Fumiko

[galaxymagick]

231023 [22 years and 2 months] Bena Amoris Day Wedding Ring Making_Park Yeol Lee Jaehwan & Kaneko Fumiko Choi Soojin | @ 아떼오드

[tasteforrot]

    As for the significance of my nihilism…in a word, it is the foundation of my thoughts.  The goal of my activities is the destruction of all living things.  I feel boundless anger against parental authority, which crushed me under the high-sounding name of parental love, and against state and social authority, which abused me in the name of universal love.     Having observed the social reality that all living things on Earth are incessantly engaged in a struggle for survival, that they kill each other to survive, I concluded that if there is an absolute, universal law on Earth, it is the reality that the strong eat the weak.  This, I believe, is the law and truth of the universe.  Now that I have seen the truth about the struggle for survival and the fact that the strong win and the weak lose, I cannot join the ranks of the idealists and adopt an optimistic mode of thinking which dreams of the construction of a society that is without authority and control.  As long as all living things do not disappear from the Earth, the power relations based on this principle [of the strong crushing the weak] will persist.  Because the wielders of power continue to defend their authority in the usual manner and oppress the weak—and because my past existence has been a story of oppression by all sources of authority—I decided to deny the rights of all authority, rebel against them, and stake not only my own life but that of all humanity in this endeavor.     For this reason I planned eventually to throw a bomb and accept the termination of my life.  I did not care whether this act would touch off a revolution or not.  I am perfectly content to satisfy my own desires.  I do not wish to help create a new society based on a new authority in a different form.

[candidateofloyalty]

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Fumiko Kaneko was a Japanese socialist in the 1920s who was arrested for treason for trying to assassinate the emperor. She was originally sentenced to death, but received a pardon from the emperor that reduced it to a life sentence, which she refused and tore to shreds because fuck that guy.

[fumikomikosl]

First post!

Hello! My name is Kaneko Fumiko. I hope to make this blog about my travels in secondlife, and my work as a Miko at Little Yoshiwara Sim!

I enjoy finding sims that are off the beaten path, and also traveling the roads, pods, and railroads on the mainland.

More info coming soon!

[ancientpillarsoflori]

Hane, Mikiso. 1993. Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan. 1st paperback ed. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Reflections on the Way to the Gallows is a compilation of translated and edited primary sources from communist, socialist, and anarchist women of Meiji (1868-1911) and Taishō (1912-1926) era Japan. It has been on my tbr for a long time, and I was lucky enough to be able to sneak it into one of my history classes last winter.

After an introduction by the author, the featured women are Fukuda Hideko, Kanno Suga, Kaneko Fumiko, various members of the Sekirankai (Red Wave Society), Tanno Setsu, and Yamashiro Tomoe. It seemlessly builds up on other works by Hane that feature marginalized groups in modern(izing) Japanese society, albeit with a narrower focus determined by gender.

The accessability and readability of the documents fluctuate, depending on the woman's respective education and the circumstances in which the sources were obtained / written. Nevertheless, the importance of such sources is all too clear: Giving a voice to the marginalized, who (especially in the case of Kanno Suga!!) are too often characterised by the men around them.

(And while (pessimistic) nihilism could never fully caption me, I was screaming giggling kicking my feet at Pak Yeol and Kaneko Fumiko.)

[xeraph2501]

“My presence will shortly be effaced from this earth. I believe, however, that every phenomenon continues as such to exist in eternal actuality even though it be physically obliterated. I now lay down the pen ... perfectly calm and at peace.”

-Fumiko Kaneko

[tussive]

Socialism did not have anything particularly new to teach me; however, it provided me with the theory to verify what I already knew emotionally from my own past.  I was poor then; I am poor now.  Because of this I have been overworked, mistreated, tormented, oppressed, deprived of my freedom, exploited, and ruled by people with money.  I had always harbored a deep antagonism toward people with that kind of power and a deep sympathy for people from backgrounds like mine.

[health-is-in-you]

From: theanarchistlibrary.org

Kaneko Fumiko (1903-1926) was a Japanese anarchist living at the early part of the 20th century. Born out of wedlock into grinding poverty, she lived her life as an outsider within Japanese society including a stint with unloving and cruel relatives in then-occupied Korea, her experiences inspiring both her rebellion against authority and feelings of solidarity with others on the receiving end of society’s boot. Together with her friend, partner and, before her death, husband Pak Yol, she started underground anarchist societies, published articles against the Japanese state and society, and, perhaps, planned to kill the Emperor Taisho and then-Crown Prince Hirohito with explosives at Hirohito’s wedding.

She and Pak were some of of many who’d be swept up in the mass arrests and killings of enemies of the state both real and perceived after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Placed into “protective custody,” she and Pak were tried and sentenced to death for high treason on charges related to a plot to kill the Emperor and Crown Prince. While these sentences was later commuted to life in prison by the Emperor, an honor she promptly rejected by tearing the decree up in front of her jailers, she was found hanging in her cell in 1926 and is supposed to have committed suicide.