Yosano Akiko | |
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Born | Shō Hō 7 December 1878 Sakai, Osaka, Japan |
Died | 29 May 1942 Tokyo, Japan | (aged 63)
Occupation | Writer, educator |
Genre | poetry, essays |
Notable work | Kimi Shinitamou koto nakare |
Spouse | Tekkan Yosano |
Children | 13 |
Yosano Akiko (Shinjitai: 与謝野 晶子, seiji: 與謝野 晶子; 7 December 1878 – 29 May 1942) was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji era as well as the Taishō and early Shōwa eras of Japan.[1] Her name at birth was Shō Hō (鳳 志やう, Hō Shō).[2] She is one of the most noted, and most controversial, post-classical female poets of Japan.[3]