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Ibaragi Noriko (茨木 のり子) was a Japanese author, playwright, and poet. Her work is frequently cited as exemplary of the postwar period. Her most well-known poem both in Japan and internationally is "When I was at my most beautiful," which frequently appears in modern textbooks.

Biography
Ibaragi was born in Osaka, Japan, and raised in Nishio, Aichi. After graduating from high school, she moved to Tokyo for pharmaceutical school, where she experienced the air raids, starvation, and devastation of wartime. Seeing a performance of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream inspired her to try playwriting, and her work was broadcast on NHK Radio. She married a doctor, Yasunobu Miura, in 1950, and moved to Tokorozawa, Saitama.

Then a housewife, she began submitting to the reader's column of Shigaku (Poetry) Magazine.