与謝野晶子(よさのあきこ)

よさのあきこ
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Yosano Akiko (Meiji–Showa tanka poet)
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1. Yosano Akiko (1878–1942)
A tanka poet whose first collection, みだれ髪(がみ) (Tangled Hair, 1901), shocked readers with its frank celebration of love and the body. She also wrote the anti-war poem 君死(きみし)にたまふことなかれ, translated The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese, and argued for women's independence.
与謝野晶子(よさのあきこ)は歌人(かじん)だ。
Yosano Akiko was a tanka poet.
与謝野晶子(よさのあきこ)の歌集(かしゅう)『みだれ髪(がみ)』を読(よ)んだ。
I read Yosano Akiko's collection Tangled Hair.
与謝野晶子(よさのあきこ)は、日露戦争(にちろせんそう)に行(い)った弟(おとうと)を思(おも)って「君死(きみし)にたまふことなかれ」を書(か)いた。
Yosano Akiko wrote 'Do Not Give Your Life' thinking of her younger brother, who had gone to the Russo-Japanese War.

Cultural note

  • 君死(きみし)にたまふことなかれ (1904), "Brother, do not give your life", was attacked as disloyal at the time and is now a standard school text
  • Her husband 与謝野鉄幹(よさのてっかん) ran the poetry magazine 明星(みょうじょう), where her early work appeared
  • The title みだれ髪(がみ) is often quoted as a byword for passionate, romantic poetry
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