Histories of women in and around Japan, 1868-1945

After Masaaki was disowned for a failed attempt to start a beer brewery <- Just layers of context I am surely missing here; this made me laugh (though surely it wasn't fun to live through). I would read a tragicomic play on this period of their life together.
Yes indeed. "disowned" is a loose translation on my part, "dismissed from the line of succession/deprived of legitimacy as a son" is closer, I suppose, but in any case it's quite an event. I don't have the details, but presumably a combination of embarrassing the family and using up too much family money...