Teijo Nakamura (中村 汀女, なかむら ていじょ, April 11, 1900 - Sept. 20, 1988) was the pen name of Japanese haiku poet Hamako Saitō (斎藤 破魔子, さいとう はまこ).

[3] In 1984, she was awarded the Japan Art Academy Prize for poetry,[4] and officially listed as a distinguished citizen of both Tokyo and Kumamoto City for her work.

Following Teijo's return to haiku in 1932, she quickly became acquainted with Takahama Kyoshi, the editor of Hototogisu at the time, and his daughter Tatsuko Hoshino, a fellow poet.

Alongside Takako Hashimoto and Takajo Mitsuhashi, Teijo and Tatsuko headed the women's haiku literary circle at Hototogisu.

[7] Teijo's first collection of haiku, Spring Snow (春雪,しゅんせつ, Shunsetsu) was published in 1940 alongside Tatsuko's book Kamakura, and the two works—which shared an introduction by Kyoshi—were considered sister publications because of the authors' close ties.

The name derives from Hototogisu's "Kitchen Miscellanies" (だいどころぞうえい, Daidokoro Zōei) column, which published the work of female poets like Hisajo and Teijo.

Takahama Kyoshi, the magazine's editor, also encouraged the female poets he mentored to focus their works on the idea of the kitchen and other 'feminine' topics.