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Ōtake Kōkichi
（尾竹紅吉）

(AKA Tomimoto Kazue（富本一枝))

Spouse: Tomimoto Kenkichi

Born Otake Kazue (尾竹一枝)

Nationality: Japanese

Ōtake Kōkichi was a writer, poet, political activist, and pioneering Japanese feminist. Causes she championed through her art and activism included the inclusion of sex workers and gender non-conforming women in Feminist discourse.

Early Life

Tenure with Seitō

Kokichi joined the Seito society at age nineteen. She designed several of the magazine's covers, and is noted for her use of Western Feminist imagery like the black jar symbolizing women's sexualities.

The 5 coloured cocktail incident

The Yoshiwara Affair

With funding provided by her uncle

Affair with Hiratsuka Raicho

After Hiratsuka ended the affair, she published "One Year" in which she mocks Otake's previous sexual experiences, and makes their affair out to seem like an unrequited, sick obsession.

Break from Seito

Original Works
January 1913「アダムとエブ」(Adam and Eve) in Bluestocking

Translations
Barbara Summerhawk. 2008. "Returning from Asakusa (To Raichō)" Sparkling Rain: And other fiction from Japan of Women who love Women.

Exhibition Entries
March 1913「枇杷の実」won at the 13th annual Tatsumi Art Exhibition.

Bibliography:

Bardsley, Jan. 2007. The Bluestockings of Japan: New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seitō. (University of Michigan Press)

Hiratsuka, Raicho. 2006. In the Beginning Woman was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist  Trans. Teruko Craig.

Izumo, Marou and Claire Maree. 2000. Love Upon the Chopping Board (Spinifex Press)

Suzuki, Michiko. 2009. Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture. (Stanford: Stanford University Press)

Summerhawk, Barbara. 2008. Sparkling Rain: and Other Fiction from Japan of Women Who Love Women. Ed. Barbara Summerhawk and Kimberly Hughes. (New Victoria Publishers)

Watanabe Sumiko (渡邊澄子). 2001. Seitō no Onna: Ōtake Kōkichi den(青鞜の女・尾竹紅吉伝) (Fuji Publishers [不二出版])