From the age of 11, she was the family member most responsible for running the family business, which produced and sold yokan, or bean candy | From early childhood, she was fond of reading literary works, and read widely in her father's extensive library |
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Her real name was Yosano Shiyo | Tekkan eventually separated from his common-law wife, and the two poets started a new life together in the suburb of Tokyo |
Her first book, which overshadows everything else she wrote, brought a passionate individualism to traditional tanka poetry, unli.
8She is one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets of Japan | When she was a high school student, she began to subscribe to the poetry magazine Myojo Bright Star , and she became one of its most important contributors |
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Although Tekkan had a common-law wife, Tekkan and Akiko fell in love |
Tekkan and Akiko married in 1901.