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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. Her name at birth was Shō Hō (鳳 志やう, Hō Shō). She is one of the most noted, and most controversial ...
Akiko Yosano (与 (よ)謝 (さ)野 (の) 晶 (あき)子 (こ),, Yosano Akiko?) is a member and personal physician of the Armed Detective Agency. Her ability is a rare healing ability, Thou Shalt Not Die. Yosano is a young woman who takes care of her appearance. She has straight, dark hair cut into a bob that reaches past her chin and bangs. Her eyes are magenta. She wears a white button-up ...
Yosano Akiko is one of the best-known female poets from post-classical Japan. Her work is celebrated for its eroticism and emotional explicitness; the publication of her first collection of poetry, Midaregami (Tangled Hair, 1901), created a stir in Japanese literary circles for its frank depictions of female passion as well as sexual and spiritual love.
May 25, 2024 · Yosano Akiko (born Dec. 7, 1878, near Ōsaka, Japan—died May 29, 1942, Tokyo) was a Japanese poet whose new style caused a sensation in Japanese literary circles. Akiko was interested in poetry from her school days, and with a group of friends she published a private poetry magazine. In 1900 she joined the Shinshisha (New Poetry Association ...
Feb 21, 2022 · Yosano Akiko was born in December 1878, into a merchant family in the city of Sakai, near Osaka. Her childhood was a lonely one, tinged with fear of a cold, at times neurotic mother. She found comfort in the company of other women, encountering the Heian-era court lady and writer Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973 – c.1014) through her great novel The Tale of Genji .
Yosano Akiko (1878–1942)Japanese writer and feminist who was one of the bestknown poets in Japan. Pronunciation: Yoe-sah-no Ahkey-koe. Born Ho Sho in Sakai, Japan, in 1878; died in Tokyo in 1942; daughter of Otori (owner of a confectionery shop); married Yosano Hiroshi (a poet); children: ten. Source for information on Yosano Akiko (1878–1942): Women in World History: A Biographical ...
Nicholas Albertson. Yosano Akiko (born Ho Sho, 1878-1942) became a literary sensation in 1901 when she. defied conventions of poetic style and morals to glorify a young woman's passionate. in the 399 tanka of Midaregami (Tangled hair). Her transformation into a goddess poetry—and the key to understanding so many of her perplexing poems—was ...
Akiko Yosano (ä´kē´kō yō´sä´nō), 1878–1942, Japanese poet, activist, and critic. Best known for passionately romantic verse, she infused the classic tanka poetic form with new life and a heady sensuality. Yosano and her husband Tekkan Yosano, also a poet, published the literary journal Myôjô, which introduced a number of poets of the contemporary Japanese romantic movement to the ...
A graduate of the Sakai Girls' School. After joining the Kansai Seinen Bungakukai (the young literary world) in 1899, she participated in Tokyo Shinshisha, established by Tekkan Yosano in 1900. She published tanka poems in a monthly publication titled " Myojo " (Bright Star). She had a romantic relationship with Tekkan and came to Tokyo.
YOSANO AKIKO (1878–1942) is a prominent figure in twentieth-century Japanese poetry: a prolific writer known for her passionate tanka, social criticism, and translation of The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese.
