How to Pronounce Katayama Hiroko
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Feb 10, 1878 Tokyo, Japan Died on 19 Mar 1958 (aged 80)
Japanese translator and writer
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About Katayama Hiroko
- Katayama Hiroko ???? (born 10 February 1878 in Tokyo, died 19 March 1957) was a Japanese poet and translator.
- She did many translations of Irish writers under the pseudonym Matsumura Mineko.
- Her husband was a noted bureaucrat.
- She reportedly took her pseudonym from a name she saw on a child's umbrella.
- She maintained a friendship with Ryunosuke Akutagawa 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.
