Miyake Kaho

Miyake Kaho
Native name	三宅花圃
Born	Tanabe Tatsuko. 4 February 1868
Died	18 July 1943
Occupation	Novelist, essayist, and poet
Language	Japanese
Education	Tōkyō Women's Higher School (now Ochanomizu University)
Notable works	Warbler in the Grove (藪の鶯)

Miyake Kaho (三宅花圃, 4 February 1868 − 18 July 1943) was a Japanese novelist, essayist, and poet. Miyake Kaho has long been associated with “women’s writing” or joryu ̄ bungaku, acknowledged as the first woman to have written in the modern period. Her most notable work is Warbler in the Grove (藪の鶯).

She was born in Edo (now Tōkyō), as the oldest daughter of government official Tanabe Taichi. A graduate of Tōkyō Women's Higher School (now Ochanomizu Women's University), she also studied with the woman poet Nakajima Utako (1841−1903). In 1892, she married philosopher and journalist Miyake Setsurei. In 1920 Miyake and her husband published Josei nihonjin (Japanese Women), a magazine on women's issues.