Following in the footsteps of Tomiko Yamakawa [PR for Fukui]
This time, we will introduce Tomiko Yamakawa, who was a poet from Obama City during the Meiji Period. She had an arranged marriage that her parents decided at the age of 22 but lost her husband next year. Afterwards, she entered the English Literature Department of Japan Women’s University and published the collaborated anthology of poems “Koigoromo” with Akiko Yosano and Masako Masuda. However, she suffered tuberculosis and died at the age of 29 in 1909.
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From the TV program [PR for Fukui], broadcasted on May 4th, 2014. It is reprinted with permission from Fukui Prefecture. (Subtitled by GEN)