| Literary Career In 1901, Yosano brought out her first volume of tanka, Midaregami Tangled Hair , which contained 400 poems and was very well received by literary critics | When she was a high school student, she began to subscribe to the poetry magazine Myojo Bright Star , and she became one of its most important contributors |
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| Her real name was Yosano Shiyo | They met when he came to Osaka and Sakai to deliver lectures and teach workshops |
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1| Early life Yosano was born into a prosperous merchant family in Sakai, near Osaka | Although Tekkan had a common-law wife, Tekkan and Akiko fell in love |
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| Tekkan and Akiko married in 1901 | Akiko Yosano was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in late Meiji period, Taisho period and early Showa period Japan |
Her first book, which overshadows everything else she wrote, brought a passionate individualism to traditional tanka poetry, unli.
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