Miyamoto Yuriko
| Yuriko Miyamoto 宮本 百合子 |
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Miyamoto Yuriko
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13 February 1899 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | 21 January 1951 (aged 51) Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | novels, short stories, essays, literary criticism |
| Literary movement | proletarian literature movement |
Yuriko Miyamoto (宮本 百合子 Miyamoto Yuriko?, 13 February 1899 – 21 January 1951) was a Japanese novelist active during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. Her maiden name was Chūjō 中條 Yuriko.
Miyamoto Yuriko was born in the Koishikawa district of Tokyo (now part of Bunkyō district) to privileged parents. Her father was a Cambridge trained professor of architecture at Tokyo Imperial University. She was aware at an early age of the differences between her own circumstances and those of the sharecroppers who worked her family's land, and the ensuing sense of guilt over the differences in social and economic status drew her towards socialism, and later towards the early Japanese feminist movement.
While in her teens and a freshman in the English literature department of Japan Women's University, she wrote a short story, Mazushiki hitobito no mure (A Crowd of Poor People), which was accepted for publication in the prestigious Chūō Kōron (Central Forum) literary magazine in September 1916, and which subsequently won a literary prize sponsored by the Shirakaba (White Birch) literary circle.
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