Yuriko Miyamoto

Chūjō Yuriko was born on 13 February 1899 in Tokyo, the daughter of an architect. While still a student, she published a first story in 1916 that drew notice, in the magazine Chūō Kōron. She left for the United States with her father, married Araki Shigeru there in 1919 and divorced in 1924. From 1927 to 1930 she lived in the Soviet Union with the Russian literature specialist Yuasa Yoshiko, then joined the Communist Party and in 1932 married another activist, Miyamoto Kenji. Arrested and imprisoned several times, she died on 21 January 1951.

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• Novel播州平野Yuriko Miyamoto · 1947not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain