Miyake Kaho, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Miyake Kaho

Japanese novelist

Date of Birth: 04-Feb-1869

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 18-Jul-1943

Profession: novelist, tanka poet

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Miyake Kaho (????, 4 February 1868 - 18 July 1943) was a Japanese novelist, essayist, and poet.
Miyake Kaho has long been associated with “women’s writing” or joryu ¯ bungaku, acknowledged as the first woman to have written in the modern period.
Her most notable work is Warbler in the Grove (???). She was born in Edo (now Tokyo), as the oldest daughter of government official Tanabe Taichi.
A graduate of Tokyo Women's Higher School (now Ochanomizu Women's University), she also studied with the woman poet Nakajima Utako (1841-1903).
In 1892, she married philosopher and journalist Miyake Setsurei.
In 1920 Miyake and her husband published Josei nihonjin (Japanese Women), a magazine on women's issues.