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Mitsuye Yamada
Japanese-American poet and activist (born 1923)
Mitsuye Yamada (born July 5, 1923) is a Japanese American poet, essayist, and feminist and human rights activist. She is one of the first and most vocal Asian American women writers to write about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Early life
Mitsuye Yamada was born as Mitsuye Mei Yasutake in Fukuoka, Japan on July 5, 1923.[1] Her parents were Jack Kaichiro Yasutake and Hide Shiraki Yasutake, both first-generationJapanese Americans (Issei) residing in Seattle, Washington. Her mother was visiting relatives in Japan when she was born, but had to return to Seattle to care for one of her brothers.[2] Mitsuye was left in the care of a neighboring family in Fukuoka until she was 3+1⁄2 years old, when her father's friend brought her back to Seattle.
At age 9, she returned to Japan to live with her paternal grandparents for 18 months. Upon returning, she spent the remainde Mitsuye yamada biography of christopher brown.