Noriko Ibaragi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Noriko Ibaragi

Japanese poet and writer

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1926

Place of Birth: Ōsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 17-Feb-2006

Profession: writer, poet, translator, children's writer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Noriko Ibaragi (?? ???, Ibaragi Noriko) was a Japanese poet, playwright, essayist, children's literature writer, and translator.
She is most well known for her poem, Watashi ga ichiban kirei datta toki (??????????????, "When my beauty shone"), written twelve years after the Japanese defeat in WWII.
In 1953, she co-founded the literary journal Kai ("Oars").
She began to learn Korean as a second language at the age of fifty, going on to publish her own translations of poetry by her Korean contemporaries.