Akiko Yosano

Akiko Yosano

Poet

Akiko Yosano About

Renowned and controversial Japanese poet, writer, feminist, and pacifist who wrote between 20,000 and 50,000 poems. She is perhaps best known for an anti-war poem entitled “Kimi Shinitamou koto nakare” and published during the Russo-Japanese War.

Life Before Becoming Famous

She ran her merchant family’s yokan (candy) business beginning at the young age of eleven.

Other Informations

Her birth name was Sho Ho; Akiko Yosano was her pen name.

Family Life

She married literary editor Tekkan Yosano in 1901. She subsequently gave birth to thirteen children.

Similarities

She was a literary contemporary of fellow Japanese author Eji Yoshikawa.


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