Miyake Kaho
Miyake Kaho 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, as the oldest daughter of government official Tanabe Taichi. A graduate of Tōkyō Women's Higher School, she also studied with the woman poet Nakajima Utako. In 1892, she married philosopher and journalist Miyake Setsurei. In 1920 Miyake and her husband published Josei nihonjin, a magazine on women's issues.
