Usurai Kitada
Usurai Kitada 北田薄氷 (1876-1900) Born Kitada Takako in Tokyo, daughter of Kitada Masatada, a lawyer. Following graduation from school, she became a student of the writer Ozaki Kōyō. Her first successful publication was “Three Widows” in 1893. She entered an arranged marriage with Japanese painter Hanko Kajita in 1898, with whom she had a son. She died of tuberculosis in 1900, and her husband collected and illustrated her works, published posthumously as Usurai ikō (“Thin Ice”) in 1901.[1]
References
- ↑ Tanaka, Yukiko (2015). Women Writers of Meiji and Taisho Japan: Their Lives, Works and Critical Reception, 1868-1926. McFarland. p. 56-57. ISBN 978-0-7864-8197-2. Search this book on
- Noguchi, Yone (1904). “Modern Japanese Women Writers,” The Critic, Vol. 44, No. 5 (May, 1904), pp. 429–432.
- Copeland, Rebecca L, and Ortabasi, Melek, eds. (2006). The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-23113-775-1.
- Copeland, Rebecca (2000). Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press. ISBN 9780824822910
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