Chieko Takamura

Takamura Chieko, (Japanese高 村 智 恵 子, born May 20, 1886 in Yui, Adachi district (now Nihonmatsu ), Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, † October 5, 1938 in Japan) was a Japanese painter and poet.

Life

Chieko was born as Naganuma Chieko, the eldest of six sisters and two brothers. From 1903 she attended the Nihon Joshi Daigaku, the Japanese women's university. There they made ​​their 1907 financial statements. She worked in the following years as a painter and made ​​colorful paper cuts. Her poems are even today (2011) still impressive descriptions of their home in Fukushima with the mountains Adatara and Iidesan and the Pacific Ocean as a backdrop.

In 1911, Chieko with other graduates of the Women's University and members of the feminist movement Seitōsha the magazine Seito, in German: bluestocking, for which she designed the first page of the first edition. The magazine began as a platform for female writers but soon transformed into a forum in which feminist issues were discussed. The magazine, which existed only until 1916, was edited by women of the upper middle class, who were designated by the term New women because they represented new ideas and a new lifestyle.

In February 1914 Chieko married the painter and sculptor Takamura Kotaro after his return from France. The marriage broke up in 1929. In 1931 she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and in 1935 spent with this diagnosis in an institution. There she died in 1938 of tuberculosis.