Chiyojo
(1703–1775)

Kaga Chiyojo was the first female to achieve fame as a haiku poet. Chiyojo was born in Matto, Japan, in 1703. She was the wife of a servant of a samurai. When her husband died, she became a nun. She also studied poetry with a well-known teacher of haiku. She is praised by many haiku scholars and critics for her poems because they illustrate a lightness of spirit. A monument dedicated to her and two other famous female Japanese poets—Teishin-ni and Rengetsu-ni— stands in Kashiwazaki, Japan.

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