Miyake Kaho

Miyake Kaho (三宅花圃, 4 February 1868 − 18 July 1943) was a Japanese novelist, essayist, and poet. Miyake Kaho has long been associated with “women’s writing” or joryu ̄ bungaku, acknowledged as the first woman to have written in the modern period.[1] Her most notable work is Warbler in the Grove (藪の鶯).

She was born in Edo (now Tōkyō), as the oldest daughter of government official Tanabe Taichi. A graduate of Tōkyō Women's Higher School (now Ochanomizu Women's University), she also studied with the woman poet Nakajima Utako (1841−1903). In 1892, she married philosopher and journalist Miyake Setsurei. In 1920 Miyake and her husband published Josei nihonjin (Japanese Women), a magazine on women's issues.[2]