She has long been associated with joryū bungaku ("women's literature"), acknowledged as the first woman to have written in the modern period.
[1] Her most notable work is Yabu no uguisu (藪の鶯, lit.
An attendant of Tokyo Women's Normal School (now Ochanomizu University), she also studied with female poet Utako Nakajima (1841−1903) at Nakajima's private school titled Haginoya.
The success of Miyake's Yabu no uguisu, published before her graduate,[2] motivated Haginoya fellow student Ichiyō Higuchi to become a professional writer herself.
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