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Yuriko Miyamoto

みやもと ゆりこ

Miyamoto Yuriko

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1899-12-07 (Hongo, Tokyo, Japan)
Died
1951-10-06 (Hongo, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, Japan) age 51
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Essayist
Active Years
1918-1951

Education

Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School
Department of English Literature
Period: 1916-1921
Year of Graduation: 1921
Country: Japan

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

A Woman Comes to the Sea

1922 Novel 200 pages

A story of a woman who moves from the countryside to a seaside town.

MigrationSelf-discovery

A Woman's Life

1950 Novel 300 pages

A novel depicting the life of a woman.

LifeWoman

Bibliography

  • The Song of Copper (1918)
  • A Woman Comes to the Sea (1922)
  • A Woman's Life (1950)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Proletarian LiteratureRealism
Recurring Motifs
Female PerspectiveSocial Conflict

Health

  • Uterine cancer
    1951
    Died after illness

Legacy

A writer who had a significant impact on Japanese women's literature and a pioneer in the proletarian literature movement.