Chika Sagawa

Aiko Kawasaki (1911–1936), also known as , was a Japanese avant-garde poet.

Biography Chika Sagawa, née Aiko Kawasaki, was born in Yoichi, Hokkaido, Japan, in 1911. She started studies to become an English teacher, but moved to Tokyo at the age of seventeen to join her brother, Kawasaki Noboru, who was already established in literary circles. They became part of Arukuiyu no kurabu (Arcueil Club), a modernist literary group centred on Katué Kitasono, who championed her work.

Kawasaki took on the pen-name Sagawa, from the characters for left and river, a likely allusion to the Left Bank of the Seine. Another source cites Aoi Uma (The Blue Horse) as Sagawa's first poem, appearing in August 1930.

Sagawa developed stomach cancer in 1935 and died in January 1936, aged 24. – English translation by Sawako Nakayasu – English translation by Sawako Nakayasu – English translation by Sawako Nakayasu