Katayama Hiroko
Katayama Hiroko ( Japanese 片 山 広 子 ; born February 10, 1878 in Tokyo , † March 19, 1957 ) was a Japanese poet and translator.
Life
The diplomat's daughter attended a mission school and married Katayama Teijiro in 1899 at the age of twenty-one , who later became director of the Bank of Tokyo . After 1910 she became active as a translator under the name Matsumara Mineko . She produced some of the earliest Japanese translations of works by Irish writers such as William Butler Yeats , John Millington Synge , George Bernard Shaw , Seumas O'Kelly , Fiona Macleod and Lord Dunsany .
Under the name Katayama Hiroko she belonged to the group of poets around the magazine Kokoro no hana Sasaki Nobutsunas and published three volumes of Tanka poems: Kawasemi (1916), Touka-setsu (1953) and No ni Sumite: Ka-shu (1954).
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| SURNAME | Katayama, Hiroko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 片 山 広 子 (Japanese); Matsumara Mineko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese poet and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1957 |