Mirei Kaneko (1903-1930) was a Japanese nursery rhyme poet who was active in the 1920s. Mirei Kaneko was born in Senzaki Village, Otsu County, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. In her poems, she uses the most natural state of children to experience and feel the world, "Don't tell anyone/okay? In the early morning/in the corner of the courtyard, the flowers/quietly shed tears If this thing gets out and reaches the ears of a bee, it will fly back to return the honey as if it has done something wrong.” The more I understand Jin Zi’s life experience, the more amazed she is at writing this. of poetry. Fans of Misuzu Kaneko say so.
Since childhood, misfortune has always been with Kaneko Misuzu. When she was three years old, her father died young and her mother later remarried according to local customs. At the age of 23, she married a bookstore clerk and gave birth to a daughter. However, her husband not only looked for flowers but also prohibited her from writing poetry. The painful Kaneko Misuzu filed for divorce, thinking that she would be free from now on. However, what Kaneko Misuzu didn't expect was that after the divorce, her daughter was also sentenced to be taken away from her, making her completely desperate for life. In 1930, the poet committed suicide at the age of 26. His works were once forgotten by the world.
Kaneko Misuzu was born in a small fishing village in 1903 (the Taisho period). Kaneko Misuzu’s family had an elder brother Kensuke who was two years older than her, and a younger brother Masyou who was two years younger than her. Her father was three years old when she was three years old. When he passed away when he was young, his younger brother was adopted by his aunt. Later, Kaneko Misuzu's aunt unfortunately became ill and before she died, she asked her sister (Kaneko's mother) to remarry her husband so that her son (Kaneko Misuzu's younger brother) Zhengyou could get The best care. She and her brother were raised by their grandmother who opened a bookstore in the countryside. At a young age, Jin Zi lost her father and her mother married far away from the country. Her lonely heart inspired her to create. Fortunately, she had the company of her grandmother, brother and best friend to make up for the regret that her parents were not around. Since her mother remarried and did not have any more children, her stepfather loved her younger brother as if he were the heir from his previous marriage and did not let the outside world know the true life story of his adopted son. Therefore, she always called her biological brother a cousin; And her brother liked her as a 'cousin' very much, so the two often used fish and geese to travel back and forth. After graduating from college, because his brother got married and he couldn't get along with his sister-in-law, he left the country to work in his stepfather's bookstore chain in Xiaguan; he was also able to reunite with his mother and brother. Unexpectedly, his younger brother Zhengyou, who had been adopted by his uncle since he was a child, fell in love with his biological sister, Kaneko Misuzu. At that time, Kaneko Misuzu was already beginning to show her talent in the literary world. In 1923, Kaneko submitted an article under the name "Kanako Misuzu" for the first time in her life. As a result, four magazines published her works, which made her cry with joy, and the relationship between Zhengyou and Kaneko also heated up day by day. The uncle was deeply afraid that his son would be unable to extricate himself and did not want to reveal the truth, so he forced Kaneko to marry Miyamoto, an employee of the bookstore. In order not to embarrass his mother, Kaneko had no choice but to follow the arrangement of his uncle (who was also his stepfather) and marry someone who knew nothing about his past. Miyamoto. Not long after Kaneko married Miyamoto, the two left the bookstore to make a living on their own. The embarrassment of life and personality differences made the rift between them wider and wider. At this time, Kaneko was pregnant. Although the relationship between the couple was not harmonious, the child was born. Give Jin Zi incomparable joy and a source of creativity. These are her works after marriage. But suffering still tortured Kaneko. Miyamoto, who had no interest in literature and even had an inferiority complex, even began to ban her from writing. What was even more unfortunate was that Miyamoto also passed on to Kaneko a sexually transmitted disease that was equivalent to a terminal illness at the time. In February 1930, Kaneko Misuzu couldn't bear it anymore, and finally divorced Miyamoto and returned to her parents' home. The only hope was to obtain custody of her daughter, but this was simply impossible in the patriarchal society of Japan at that time. In March, Miyamoto finally sent a letter to take his daughter away. On the 9th, with the moon high in the sky and an unusually clear night, Kaneko Misuzu saved her daughter with her life. Her last request was to let Miyamoto take the child away. Leaving it to her mother and stepfather, she said in her last words that she hoped her daughter could have a rich spiritual life, which Miyamoto could not give her.
(Quoted from the 2001 special drama "Towards the Light—Nursery Rhyme Poet Misuzu Kaneko")