Akiko Yosano, Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer (died 1942)

Yosano Akiko

Japanese tanka poet

Yosano Shō , known by her pen name Yosano Akiko, was a Japanese author, poet, feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji era as well as the Taishō and early Shōwa eras of Japan. She is one of the most noted, and most controversial, post-classical female…