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| | Okamoto Kanoko かまくら GreenNet |
 | | Okamoto Kanoko, novelist, poet and Buddhism scholar, was born in Tokyo in 1889. |
 | | Her husband was Okamoto Ippei, the caricaturist, and her son, Okamoto Taro, the avant-garde painter. |
 | | After returning home, Kanoko was overwhelmed by her work as a researcher of Buddhism, but she found time to write Tsuru wa yamiki (1936, The Dying Crane), a novelette about the last days of the writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke, for the influential magazine Bungakukai, which gained her a foothold into the literary world. |
| www.city.kamakura.kanagawa.jp /bunka/bunjinroku/okamoto_e.htm (302 words) |
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