Kaneko Misuzu: Rediscovering the Life and Work of Japan’s Poet for Children

Kaneko Misuzu in May 1923, when she was 20 years old. (© Preservation Association of Misuzu Kaneko’s Works) 

The three handwritten notebooks of Kaneko Misuzu’s verse, kept by her brother for more than 50 years. (© Preservation Association of Misuzu Kaneko’s Works)

Misuzu in her days at the Ōtsu High School for Girls. (© Preservation Association of Misuzu Kaneko’s Works)