Yamakawa Kikue

Yamakawa Kikue (山川菊栄, November 3, 1890 – November 2, 1980) was a Japanese essayist, activist, and socialist feminist who contributed to the development of feminism in modern Japan. Born in Tokyo "as the daughter of a scholarly and progressive-minded samurai family", Yamakawa graduated from the private women's college Joshi Eigaku Juku (renamed TsudaJuku University in 1948) in 1912. In 1916, she married "the communist activist and theoretician Yamakawa Hitoshi who in 1922 founded the short-lived prewar Japanese Communist Party and was a leader of the Labor-Farmer faction."

Yamakawa Kikue

Yamakawa Kikue (山川菊栄, November 3, 1890 – November 2, 1980) was a Japanese essayist, activist, and socialist feminist who contributed to the development of feminism in modern Japan. Born in Tokyo "as the daughter of a scholarly and progressive-minded samurai family", Yamakawa graduated from the private women's college Joshi Eigaku Juku (renamed TsudaJuku University in 1948) in 1912. In 1916, she married "the communist activist and theoretician Yamakawa Hitoshi who in 1922 founded the short-lived prewar Japanese Communist Party and was a leader of the Labor-Farmer faction."