Chieko Takamura

She was an early member of the Japanese feminist movement Seitōsha, joining in 1911.

She made the cover illustration for the first issue of their magazine, "Seitō".

It began as a literary outlet for woman writers and quickly turned into a forum for discussing feminist issues.

In February 1914, she married Kōtarō Takamura, a sculptor and poet, whom she met soon after he had returned from France.

Following the breakup of her family home in 1929, she was diagnosed in 1931 with symptoms of schizophrenia – she was hospitalized for that disease in 1935, and remained there until her death from tuberculosis in 1938.