Madame Naokichi Matsunaga
Wife of the imperial Japanese consul in Seattle in the 1910s
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Izumi Shikibu
1000s Japanese poet and courtier
Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese novelist and poet Murasaki Shikibu served as a lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period, in the late 900s and early 1000s CE. While she is best known for the three-part novel The Tale of Genji, 128 of her poems were gathered into a collection of Poetic Memoirs, and her diary serves as a fascinating look at court life in this period.
Misa Sugiura
American writer
Aiko Yamashiro
Executive director of the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities
Asako Serizawa
Japanese-American writer
Tsuneno
Tsuneno survived famine and three marriages to reinvent herself in 1800s Edo
Colleen Hanabusa
A prominent labor lawyer, Colleen Hanabusa served in the Hawaii state senate for a dozen years before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010.
Amy Uyematsu
Award-winning poet and high school math teacher
Adrienne Reiko Iwanaga
Teacher, performer, preserver, and cultural ambassador of Bon Odori, a centuries-old Japanese folk dance rooted in the Buddhist tradition of communal gathering to honor and celebrate the memory of ancestors.