Suiko Sugiura

Suiko Sugiura (17 May 1885 – 16 February 1960) (or 杉浦翠子 in Japanese, すぎうら すいこ in kana), born Midori Iwasaki, was a Japanese poet.

Both of her parents died when she was a young girl; she was raised by her grandmother, and then in her older sister's household in Tokyo.

[2] Sugiura was a poet in Tokyo, in the tanka style (short poems).

She published several collections of her work,[3] and launched a monthly poetry magazine in 1933; one poet she promoted was Shinoe Shōda.

Photographs, portraits, letters, and other materials related to Sugiura were included in "Sugiura Hisui: Epoch-making Modern Design", a 2021 exhibit about her husband at the Tobacco and Salt Museum in Tokyo,[6] also shown in 2022 at the Shizuoka City Museum of Art.