 Hiratsuka Raichō

Hiratsuka Raichō (, transliterated according to the historical kana orthography, February 10, 1886 – May 24, 1971) was a writer, journalist, political activist, anarchist and pioneering Japanese feminist.Born Hiratsuka Haru (平塚 明) in Tokyo in 1886, the second daughter of a high ranking civil servant, and educated at Japan Women's University () in 1903, Hiratsuka came to be influenced by contemporary currents of European philosophy, as well as Zen Buddhism, of which she would become a devoted practitioner.