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was a Japanese artist.
Chieko Takamura was born in the town of Adachi in what is now the city of 
Following the breakup of her family home in 1929, she was diagnosed in 1931 with symptoms of schizophrenia – she was hospitalized for that disease in 1935, and remained there until her death from
One biography
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1886 births 1938 deaths 20th-century Japanese painters 20th-century Japanese women artists Artists from Fukushima Prefecture Japanese feminists {{Japan-writer-stub
was a Japanese artist.
Biography
Chieko Takamura was born in the town of Adachi in what is now the city of Nihonmatsu
is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 54,013 in 20,179 households, and a population density of 160 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . The Adachi neighborhood of Nihonmatsu was the bir ...
, Fukushima Prefecture
Fukushima Prefecture (; ja, 福島県, Fukushima-ken, ) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Fukushima Prefecture has a population of 1,810,286 () and has a geographic area of . Fukushima Prefecture borders Miya ...
as Chieko Naganuma, the eldest of six daughters and two sons.
In 1903, she went to the Japan Women's University
is the oldest and largest of private Japanese women's universities. The university was established on 20 April 1901 by education reformist .
The university has around 6000 students and 200 faculty. It has two campuses, named after the neighb ...
in Tokyo, and graduated in 1907. She became an oil painter, and made colorful papercuts. She was an early member of the Japanese feminist movement ''Seitōsha'', joining in 1911. She made the cover illustration for the first issue of their magazine, " Seitō". It began as a literary outlet for woman writers and quickly turned into a forum for discussing feminist issues. These women were from the upper-middle class and soon were labeled "New Women" because of their views and their lifestyles. In February 1914, she married Kōtarō Takamura
was a Japanese poet and sculptor.
Biography
Takamura was the eldest son of Japanese sculptor Takamura Kōun
was a Japanese sculptor who exerted himself for the modernization of wood carving and a professor of Tokyo School of Fine Arts, wh ...
, a sculptor and poet, whom she met soon after he had returned from France.
Following the breakup of her family home in 1929, she was diagnosed in 1931 with symptoms of schizophrenia – she was hospitalized for that disease in 1935, and remained there until her death from tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in ...
in 1938.
Kōtarō's book of poems about her, , is still widely admired and read today. The translated title, "Chieko's Sky", is from one of the poems, , where Chieko longs for the sky of her childhood.
See also
*Portrait of Chieko
is a 1967 Japanese drama film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It is based both on the poetry collection ''Chieko-shō'' by Japanese poet and sculptor Kōtarō Takamura, which reminisces about his wife Chieko, and on the novel ''Shōsetsu Chieko-s ...
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1886 births 1938 deaths 20th-century Japanese painters 20th-century Japanese women artists Artists from Fukushima Prefecture Japanese feminists {{Japan-writer-stub