Kanoko Okamoto

Kanoko Okamoto (Japanese岡本 かの子, born as Onuki Kano (大貫 カノ), born March 1, 1889 in Akasaka, Tokyo, † February 18, 1939 ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

Okamoto belonged to the wealthy family Onuki, who came from generations during the Tokugawa Shogunate landlords and merchants. Even as a child she was introduced to the classical Japanese arts of music, dance and literature. Influenced by her brother, the writer Onuki Yukinosuke ( Onuki Shosen ), she attended the Atomi Gakuen Girls' School and studied at the University of Tokyo.

During this time she published, encouraged by Yosano Akiko, first tankas in the magazine Myojo (明星). 1910 she married the manga artist Okamoto Ippei, in the following year their son was born taro, which became known as avant-garde painter.

In 1912 came the first of its five tanka collections under the title Karoki - netami (かろ き ねたみ). In order to perfect their literary education, she traveled from 1930 to 1932 with her family to Paris, London, Berlin and finally in the United States. In 1936 she published the novelette Tsuru wa Yamiki (鶴 は 病み き) about the last days of the writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke, which she had met in 1923. Until her death emerged in rapid succession nor the novels Hahako JoJo (母子 叙 情), Kingyo Ryoran (金鱼 撩乱) and Rōgishō (老 妓 抄). She died in 1939 shortly before her 50th birthday a stroke.

Swell

• Kamakura City, Kamakura 's Literary Figures - Biography
• Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck, Marlene R. Edelstein: Japanese women novelists in the 20th century: 104 biographies, 1900-1993, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1994, ISBN 8772892684, p.95

• Author
• Literature (Japanese)
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Poetry
• Novel, epic
• Japanese
• Woman
• Born in 1889
• Died in 1939
• Pseudonym