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Yosano Akiko (与謝野 晶子,
December 7,
1878 -
May 29,
1942) is a
Japanese author & poet.
She was born a daughter of a rich merchant in
Sakai,
Osaka. When she was a high school student, she began to subscribe a
poetry magazine Myojo(Bright Star) and soon her talent on poetry
florished. She became one of its most important contributers. Its editor,
Yosano Tekkan taught her poetry and sometimes visited her in Sakai. Though
he was married, those two authors fell in love and they started a new life
in the suburb of
Tokyo. Later Tekkan and Akiko married legally and she made many
numbers of children. Tekkan was also a poet but he realized the talent of
Akiko bigger than his and determined to concentrate his energy to produce
her talent on literature.
The Japanese politician Yosano Kaoru is one of their grandson.
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