Katayama Hiroko

Katayama Hiroko (片山広子 born 10 February 1878 in Tokyo, died 19 March 1957[1]) was a Japanese poet and translator. She did many translations of Irish writers under the pseudonym Matsumura Mineko. Her husband was a noted bureaucrat.[2] She reportedly took her pseudonym from a name she saw on a child's umbrella. She maintained a friendship with Ryūnosuke Akutagawa[3] and he reportedly said of her "Finally I have met a woman who can be called my equal in the arena of words." She also acted as a mentor to Muraoka Hanako who is known in Japan for translating Anne of Green Gables.[4]

Hiroko Katayama

References
  1. VIAF
  2. Ryunosuke Akutagawa (5 April 2007). Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories. Penguin Books Limited. p. 340. ISBN 978-0-14-190287-6.
  3. Aoife Assumpta Hart (1 June 2016). Ancestral Recall: The Celtic Revival and Japanese Modernism. MQUP. pp. 229–236. ISBN 978-0-7735-9867-6.
  4. Nippon.com
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