Tekkan eventually separated from his common-law wife, and the two poets started a new life together in the suburb of Tokyo | |
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When she was a high school student, she began to subscribe to the poetry magazine Myojo Bright Star , and she became one of its most important contributors | They met when he came to Osaka and Sakai to deliver lectures and teach workshops |
Her real name was Yosano Shiyo.
24She is one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets of Japan | |
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Tekkan and Akiko married in 1901 | Literary Career In 1901, Yosano brought out her first volume of tanka, Midaregami Tangled Hair , which contained 400 poems and was very well received by literary critics |
Her first book, which overshadows everything else she wrote, brought a passionate individualism to traditional tanka poetry, unli.
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