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Yosano Akiko

与謝野晶子 1878-12-07 – 1942-05-29 日本語版へ

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Biography

Born in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, in 1878 as the third daughter of the long-established confectioner "Surugaya". Her real name was Hō Shō (later Yosano Akiko). In 1900 she joined the Tokyo New Poetry Society's magazine "Myōjō" (Morning Star), edited by Yosano Tekkan. In 1901 her debut tanka collection "Tangled Hair" (Midaregami) created a sensation as the work of a sensual and passionate woman poet. She married Tekkan and bore 13 children while continuing to write. Her long poem "Brother, Do Not Give Your Life" (Kimi Shinitamō koto nakare, 1904), addressed to her younger brother fighting in the Russo-Japanese War, became an iconic anti-war poem and provoked a public controversy with Ōmachi Keigetsu. Her vast output includes tanka collections "Robe of Love" (Koigoromo), "Spring Mud" (Shundeishū), "Blue Waves" (Seikaiha), and "Princess of Saho" (Sahohime); essays "From a Corner" (Hitosumi yori) and "As a Person and as a Woman" (Hito Oyobi Onna to shite); educational writings; and modern Japanese translations of "The Tale of Genji", "A Tale of Flowering Fortunes" (Eiga Monogatari), and "The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu". She was also a founding member of Bunka Gakuin. She died in 1942 at age 63. She is the foremost female tanka poet of modern Japan.

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Selected Works (64 works recorded in Aozora Bunko)

  • みだれ髪 (Tangled Hair) (1901)
  • ひらきぶみ (Hiraki Bu Mi) (1904)
  • 産屋物語 (Ubuya Monogatari) (1909)
  • 離婚について (Rikon Nitsuite) (1909)
  • 婦人と思想 (Fujin to Shisō) (1911)
  • 女子の独立自営 (Joshi no Dokuritsu Jiei) (1911)
  • そぞろごと (Sozoro Goto) (1911)
  • 私の貞操観 (Watashi no Teisō Kan) (1911)
  • 私の生ひ立ち (Watashi no Nama Hi Tachi) (1915)
  • 姑と嫁について (Shūto to Yome Nitsuite) (1915)
  • 婦人改造と高等教育 (Fujin Kaizō to Kōtō Kyōiku) (1916)
  • 母性偏重を排す (Bosei Henchō o Haisu) (1916)
  • 平塚さんと私の論争 (Hiratsuka San to Watashi no Ronsō) (1916)
  • 私娼の撲滅について (Shishō no Bokumetsu Nitsuite) (1916)
  • 選挙に対する婦人の希望 (Senkyo nitaisuru Fujin no Kibō) (1917)
  • 三面一体の生活へ (Sammen Ittai no Seikatsu E) (1918)
  • 何故の出兵か (Naze no Shuppei Ka) (1918)
  • 食糧騒動について (Shokuryō Sōdō Nitsuite) (1918)
  • 月夜 (Tsukiyo) (1918)
  • 平塚・山川・山田三女史に答う (Hiratsuka Yamakawa Yamada San Joshi ni Kotae U) (1918)
  • 婦人も参政権を要求す (Fujin mo Sansei Ken o Yōkyū Su) (1919)
  • 婦人改造の基礎的考察 (Fujin Kaizō no Kiso Teki Kōsatsu) (1919)
  • 教育の民主主義化を要求す (Kyōiku no Minshu Shugi Ka o Yōkyū Su) (1919)
  • 非人道的な講和条件 (Hi Jindōteki na Kōwa Jōken) (1919)
  • 階級闘争の彼方へ (Kaikyū Tōsō no Kanata E) (1919)
  • 婦人指導者への抗議 (Fujin Shidō Sha e no Kōgi) (1920)
  • 新婦人協会の請願運動 (Shin Fujin Kyōkai no Seigan Undō) (1920)
  • 文化学院の設立について (Bunka Gakuin no Setsuritsu Nitsuite) (1921)
  • 「女らしさ」とは何か (Onnarashi Sa to wa Nani Ka) (1921)
  • 註釈与謝野寛全集 (Chūshaku Yosano Hiroshi Zenshū) (1935)

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