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Suiko Sugiura (17 May 1885 – 16 February 1960) (or 杉浦翠子 in Japanese, すぎうら すいこ in kana), born Midori Iwasaki, was a Japanese poet.

Early life

Midori Iwasaki was born near Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, the daughter of Kiichi Iwasaki and Sada. Both of her parents died when she was a young girl; she was raised by her grandmother, and then in her older sister's household in Tokyo. She attended Joshibi University of Art and Design. One of her brothers was the businessman Momosuke Fukuzawa.

Career

Sugiura was a poet in Tokyo, in the tanka style (short poems). She was involved in the Araragi school of poets associated with the magazine of that name. She published several collections of her work, and launched a monthly poetry magazine in 1933; one poet she promoted was Shinoe Shōda. She also published at least two novels. She also collaborated with her artist husband on some projects.

Publications

• Sōsaku kanashiki utabito no mure (1927)
• Asa no kokyū (1928)

Personal life

In 1904 Iwasaki married artist Hisui Sugiura. She died in 1960, at the age of 74. Photographs, portraits, letters, and other materials related to Sugiura were included in "Sugiura Hisui: Epoch-making Modern Design", a 2021 exhibit about her husband at the Tobacco and Salt Museum in Tokyo, also shown in 2022 at the Shizuoka City Museum of Art.

References

1. Huber, Kristina R. (1992). Women in Japanese society : an annotated bibliography of selected English language materials. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 278–279. ISBN 978-0-313-25296-9.
2. Kurita, Shunjiro (1911). Who's who in Japan. Who's Who in Japan Office. p. 672.
3. Masterpieces of Japanese poetry, ancient and modern. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1970. p. 778. ISBN 978-0-8371-2944-0.
4. Treat, John Whittier (1995). Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb. University of Chicago Press. pp. 189–190. ISBN 978-0-226-81178-9.
5. ^ Sugiura, Hisui; 杉浦非水 (2014). Sugiura Hisui no dezain = Hisui Sugiura : a pioneer of Japanese graphic design (Shohan ed.). Tōkyō-to Toshima-ku. ISBN 978-4-7562-4389-8. OCLC 886272785.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
6. "Hisui Sugiura's Japanese Modernism". Tokyo Art Beat. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
7. "Hisui Sugiura, "Epoch-making Modern Design" (Shizuoka City Museum of Art）". Tokyo Art Beat. Retrieved 2022-11-29.

• 1885 births
• 1960 deaths
• Writers from Saitama Prefecture
• Japanese poets
• Japanese women writers
• Joshibi University of Art and Design alumni