As a young girl from a wealthy family Ginko Ogino seems set for a conventional life in the maledominated society of nineteenthcentury Japan. But when she contra... » 

As a young girl from a wealthy family Ginko Ogino seems set for a conventional life in the maledominated society of nineteenthcentury Japan. But when she contracts gonorrhoea from her husband she suffers the ignominy of divorce. Forced to bear the humiliation of being treated by male doctors she resolves to become a doctor herself in order to treat fellow female sufferers and spare them some of the shame she had to endure. «