Mitsuko Shiga

Mitsuko Shiga (Japanese四 贺 光子, civil: Ōta Mitsu (太田 みつ) * April 21, 1885 in Nagano Prefecture, † 23 March 1976) was a Japanese writer.

Shiga worked as a teacher. She learned in that time the poet Mizuho Ōta know and began writing tanka verses. From 1906 she studied at the Normal School Girls Tokyo (now Ochanomizu Women's University ). After graduating, she married in 1910 Ōta.

She taught at a girls' school and was an employee of tanka journal Choon (潮音), the Ōta founded in 1915. After the death of OTA 1955, she took with her son Ōta Seikyu the publication of the magazine. From 1957 to 1965 she was also responsible for the selection of poems for Neujahreslesung at the Imperial court.

In addition to several volumes of poetry, including Fuji no Mi (藤 の 実), Asa Tsuki (朝 月), Asa Ginu (麻 ぎ ぬ), Shiga also published literary writings such as Waka Dokuhon (和 歌 読 本) and Dento to Gendai Waka (伝 统 と 現代 和歌), and the essays Kamakura Zakki (镰仓 雑 记).

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  • Literature ( 20th century)
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  • Literary scholar
  • Japanese
  • Born 1885
  • Died in 1976
  • Woman
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