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was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji period as well as the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. Her name at birth was . She is one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets of Japan. == Bio == Yosano was born into a prosperous merchant family in Sakai, near Osaka. From the age of 11, she was the family member most responsible for running the family business, which produced and sold yokan, a type of confection. From early childhood, she was fond of reading literary works, and read widely in her father's extensive library. When she was a high school student, she began to subscribe to the poetry magazine ''Myōjō'' ("Bright Star"), and she became one of its most important contributors. ''Myōjō’s'' editor, Tekkan_Yosano,() taught her ''tanka'' poetry. They met when he came to Osaka and Sakai to deliver lectures and teach workshops. Although Tekkan had a common-law wife, Tekkan and Akiko fell in love. Tekkan eventually separated from his common-law wife, and the two poets started a new life together in the suburb of Tokyo. Tekkan and Akiko married in 1901.() The couple would have two sons, Hikaru and Shigeru.() Despite separation from his first wife, Tekkan remained actively involved with her.() Yosano helped to found what was originally a girl's school, the Bunka Gakuin (Institute of Culture), together with Nishimura Isaku, Kawasaki Natsu and others, and became its first dean and chief lecturer. She assisted many aspiring writers to gain a foothold into the literary world. She was a strong advocate of women's education all of her life. She also translated the Japanese classics into the modern Japanese language, including the ''Shinyaku Genji Monogatari'' ("Newly Translated Tale of Genji") and ''Shinyaku Eiga Monogatari'' ("Newly Translated Tale of Flowering Fortunes"). She gave birth to 13 children, 11 of whom survived to adulthood. The Japanese politician Kaoru Yosano (''Yosano Kaoru'') is one of her grandsons. Yosano died of a stroke in 1942, at the age of 63.() As her death occurred in the middle of the Pacific War, it went largely unnoticed in the press, and after the end of the war, her works were largely forgotten by critics and the general public. However, in recent years, her romantic, sensual style has come back into popularity and she has an ever increasing following. Her grave is at Tama Cemetery in Fuchu, Tokyo. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Akiko Yosano」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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