Nakajima Utako

Nakajima Utako

Nakajima Utako (中島 歌子; 14 December 1844, Tokyo – 30 January 1903) was a Japanese waka and tanka poet and conservatory founder. Associated with Keien court poetry,[1] she founded the Haginoya poetry school (萩の舎, "House of Bush Clover"),[2] the most notable of the poetry conservatories during the Meiji period.