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Miyake Kaho
was a Japanese novelist, essayist, and poet. Miyake has long been associated with ''joryū bungaku'' ("women's literature"), acknowledged as the first woman to have written in the modern period. Her most notable work is ''Yabu no uguisu'' (藪の鶯, lit. "Warbler in the Grove"), published in 1888. Miyake was born Tatsuko Tanabe in Edo (renamed Tokyo the same year) as the oldest daughter of government official Taichi Tanabe. An attendant of Tokyo Women's Normal School (now Ochanomizu University), she also studied with female poet Nakajima Utako, Utako Nakajima (1841−1903) at Nakajima's private school titled Haginoya. The success of Miyake's ''Yabu no uguisu'', published before her graduate, motivated Haginoya fellow student Ichiyō Higuchi to become a professional writer herself. In 1892, Miyake married philosopher and journalist Miyake Setsurei, Setsurei Miyake. She continued to write short stories and essays. In 1920, Miyake and her husband published ''Josei nihonjin'' ("Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ochanomizu University
is a women's university in the Ōtsuka neighborhood of Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Ochanomizu University is one of the top national universities in Japan. Ochanomizu is the name of a Tokyo neighborhood where the university was founded. History The university traces its origins to 1875, when Tokyo Women's Normal School was founded in Tokyo's Ochanomizu neighborhood (now Yushima, Bunkyo-ku). It subsequently underwent a series of name changes: "The Women's Campus of Tokyo Normal School", "The Women's Campus of Higher Normal School", "Women's Higher Normal School", and "Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School". The original campus was destroyed in the Great Kantō earthquake; on 31 August 1932, a new campus was established in its present location in the Ōtsuka neighborhood of Bunkyō, Tokyo, where the school buildings were constructed by 1936.Those newly finished school buildings are documented in the digital photo archive: . It was established as Ochanomizu University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |