Derived from an idealized traditional role for women, the ideology of Good Wife, Wise Mother or Wise Wife, Good Mother, (Japanese: 良妻賢母 ryōsai kenbo, Chinese: 賢妻良母/賢母良妻 xián qī liáng mù/xián mù liáng qī was coined by Nakamura Masanao in 1875. It represented the ideal for womanhood in the East Asian area like Japan, China and Korea in the late 1880s and early 1900s and maybe still so nowadays. Women were expected to master such domestic skills as sewing and cooking as well as develop the moral and intellectual skills to raise strong, intelligent sons and daughters for the sake of the nation.
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