Katayama Hiroko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Katayama Hiroko

Japanese translator and writer

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1878

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 19-Mar-1958

Profession: writer, translator, tanka poet

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Katayama Hiroko ???? (born 10 February 1878 in Tokyo, died 19 March 1957) was a Japanese poet and translator.
She did many translations of Irish writers under the pseudonym Matsumura Mineko.
Her husband was a noted bureaucrat.
She reportedly took her pseudonym from a name she saw on a child's umbrella.
She maintained a friendship with Ryunosuke Akutagawa and he reportedly said of her "Finally I have met a woman who can be called my equal in the arena of words." She also acted as a mentor to Muraoka Hanako who is known in Japan for translating Anne of Green Gables.