Yamakawa Tomiko

Yamakawa Tomiko ( Japanese 山川 登 美 子 ; * July 19, 1879 Takehara (today: Obama ), in Fukui Prefecture ; † April 15, 1909 , ibid) was a Japanese writer . Her younger brother (1887-1957) was the writer Yamakawa Ryō .

Life

Yamakawa attended the Baika Mission and Girls School in Osaka, which she graduated in 1897. She then studied English for a year at the Women's University in Tokyo. During this time she began to publish poems in the magazine Myōjō , published by Yosano Tekkan . She married at the age of 21, but her husband died two years later. When she died of tuberculosis herself at the age of 30, she had published a landmark book of poetry. It is an anthology called Koi goromo ( 恋 衣 ), which she wrote together with Yosano Akiko and Chino Masako .

To commemorate her, a literature museum named after her ( 山 川登 美 子 記念 館Yamakawa Tomiko Kinenkan ) was opened in her hometown in 2007 .

plant

• 1905 Koi goromo ( 恋 衣 , roughly: dress of love ) with 131 poems by Yamakawa

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 山 川登 美 子 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved October 26, 2019 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Kenneth Rexroth, Ikuko Atsumi: Women Poets in Japan . New York 1977, ISBN 0-8112-0820-6 , pp. 150-51 .

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Yamakawa is the family name, Tomiko the first name.