“Did our parents make you grasp the sword and teach you to kill? For you what does it matter whether the fortress of Lüshun [Port Arthur] falls or not?”
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Akiko Yosano
Yosano Shō , known by her pen name Yosano Akiko, was a Japanese author, poet, feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji era as well as the Taishō and early Shōwa eras of Japan. She is one of the most noted, and most controversial, post-classical female poets of Japan.
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culture · Japanese tanka poet · poet · translator · waka poet · essayist · writer · also Akiko Yosano, Yosano Akiko, Yosano
Born 7 December 1878 · Died 29 May 1942 · Q464104
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2026· 3 entries
Universiteit Leiden: Symposium Yosano Akiko: The Hidden Lives of a Japanese Woman Writer
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Artnet news: Akiko Yosano, Masamune Tokusaburo, and Tekkan Yosano
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2024· 1 entry
Artnet news: Akiko Yosano and Hakutei Ishii
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2020· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Akiko Yosano
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1942· 2 entries
Died 1942-05-29.
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In one of her last poems, Yosano praised her son who was serving as a lieutenant in the Imperial Navy, urging him to "fight bravely" for the Emperor in "this sacred war"
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1941· 1 entry
Supported war against the United States and the United Kingdom
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1931· 1 entry
Yosano, Japan's most famous pacifist succumbed to the "war fever" that gripped Japan when the Kwantung Army seized Manchuria
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1901· 2 entries
Yosano brought out her first volume of tanka, Midaregami (Tangled Hair), which contained 399 poems and was mostly denounced by literary critics
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When Yosano was 23, and went on to have 13 children, 11 of whom lived to adulthood
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1878· 1 entry
Born 1878-12-07.
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