Mitsuye Yamada

Mitsuye Yamada
Born
Mitsuye Yasutake

(1923-07-05) July 5, 1923 (age 101)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Poet, writer, activist
Spouse
Yoshikazu Yamada
(m. 1950)
Children4
Websitewww.mitsuyeyamada.com

Mitsuye Yamada (born July 5, 1923) is a Japanese American poet, essayist, and feminist and human rights activist. She is one of the first and most vocal Asian American women writers to write about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.