Yosano Akiko

Yosano Akiko 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 . She is one of the most noted, and most controversial, post-classical female poets of Japan.

7 December 1878

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