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Yuriko Miyamoto (February
1,
1899 -
January 21,
1951) was a Japanese
novelist.
Born in
Tokyo to privileged parents, she was aware at an early age of the
differences between her own circumstances and those of the sharecroppers
who worked her family's land. While still in her teens and a student at
Japan Women's University, she published a prize winning short story,
Mazushiki hitobito no mure (A Crowd of Poor People, 1916) that spoke
to these issues.
Leaving the university without graduating, she travelled to the
United States, where she studied at
Columbia University and met her first husband. Her
semiautobiographical novel Nobuko relates the failure of this
marriage, her travels abroad, and finding independence as a single woman.
She spent a number of years in
Europe and the
Soviet Union before returning to Japan and marrying
Japanese Communist Party leader Miyamoto Kenji. She was an prominent
participant in
Japan's Proletarian Literature movement.
Works include:
- Nobuko (1928)
- Fϋchisτ (The Weathervane Plant, 1946)
- Hanshϋ heiya (The Harima Plain, 1946)
- Futatsu no niwa (Two Gardens, 1948)
- Dτhyτ (Mileposts, 1950)
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