Inahata Teiko (; 8 January 1931 – 27 February 2022) was a Japanese

haiku is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a ''kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 '' on'' (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, and a ''kigo'', or s ...

poet, essayist and literary critic.

Life and career

Born in

Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of T ...

, the granddaughter of poet

Kyoshi Takahama was a Japanese poet active during the Shōwa period of Japan. His real name was ; Kyoshi was a pen name given to him by his mentor, Masaoka Shiki. Early life Kyoshi was born in what is now the city of Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture; his father, Ike ...

and the daughter of poet , Inahata had been composing

since she was still a child. She studied at Kobayashi Seishin Women's College. Inahata published her first collection of haiku in 1976. In 1979 she succeeded her father as editor-in-chief of the literary magazine '' Hototogisu'', and was editor of the newspaper ''

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''. In 1987 she founded and was the first secretary of the , later serving as its honorary president. She was a Catholic. Inahata died in Ashiya, Hyōgo Prefecture on 27 February 2022, at the age of 91.

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Teiko Inahata
at OpenLibrary 1931 births 2022 deaths Japanese women poets Writers from Kanagawa Prefecture People from Yokohama {{Japan-bio-stub