青せい鞜とう

noun

bluestocking

Historical term referring to an intellectual woman, often associated with the early 20th-century Japanese feminist magazine 'Seitō'. The word itself is a direct translation of the English 'bluestocking'.

• 青せい鞜とうは、明めい治じ時じ代だいに発はっ行こうされた女じょ性せいによる文ぶん芸げい誌しです。

  Seitō was a literary magazine published by women in the Meiji era.

• 彼かの女じょは当とう時じの青せい鞜とうの一人ひとりとして知しられている。

  She is known as one of the bluestockings of that time.