Akiko Yosano

Akiko Yosano (与謝野 晶子, Yosano Akiko?, Seiji: 與謝野 晶子, 7 December 1878 – 29 May 1942) was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji period as well as the Taishō and early Showa periods of Japan. Her name at birth was Shō Hō (鳳 志よう, Hō Shō?). She is one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets of Japan.