Born at Senzaki, Yamaguchi (Nagato); her real name was Teru.
She graduated from Ōtsu Girls' High School.
Working at a bookshop in Shimonoseki, she sent children's poems to magazines and was highly praised by the poet Saijō Yaso.
She married and had a daughter.
Around this time her husband forbade her to write poetry.
She copied her poems by hand into three volumes and entrusted them to Saijō Yaso and others.
After her divorce, facing the loss of her daughter, she took her own life. Poems such as "All different, all good" later became widely known.
Kikuchi KanKagawa ToyohikoKishida RyūseiKanakuri ShisōAkutagawa RyūnosukeIchikawa FusaeItō NoeMiyazawa Kenji
People of the Taishō period ・ People by period
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