Tsugi Takano

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Tsugi Takano (鷹野つぎ, Takano Tsugi^?), August 15, 1890 - March 19, 1943) was a female novelist from Hamamatsu City in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan. She was born in 1890 as the second daughter of a local mechant. in 1904, she attended Hamamatsu Women's Highschool and in 1907 she entered Shizuoko Women's High School. However, she was forced to withdraw because of an eye disease. In 1909, at the age of 19, she married newspaper reporter Yasaburō Takano despite the objections of those around her. She moved with her husband to Toyohashi, Fukushima, and Tokyo. In the midst of her husband's long unemployment, six of eight of her children succomed to ill health. She herself, suffered a long battle with tuberculosis to which she succumbed to in 1952 at the age of 52.

From her time at Hamamatsu Woman's High School developed a deepening interest in the writings in female literary circles. In 1922 she published her first novel, Allotment of Sorrow (悲しき配分, kanashiki haibun^?). Later, while in sickbed, she wrote a novel with 11 volumes. Her works urged the calm self-discovery and self-reformation of woman.

There is a stone monument dedicated to Takano at Hamamatsu Municipal High School (the original Hamamatsu Woman's High). Inscribed on the monument is a poem is one of her poems where she writes about thinking of her home town.