Yagi Akiko

{{Short description|Japanese writer and anarchist (1895–1983)}}

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| birth_date = 1895

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Yagi Akiko (1895–1983) was a Japanese anarchist writer and activist. She wrote for anarchist women's arts journals Fujin Sensen (The Women's Front) and Nyonin Geijutsu (Women's Arts) on topics including Bolshevism,{{cite book|last=Mackie|first=Vera|title=Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g7_5Cm8k2MkC&pg=PA247|year=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52719-4|pages=247, 91}} the commercial commodification of women,{{cite book|last=Bernstein|first=Gail Lee|title=Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bjJYLC8wEPkC&pg=PA251|year=1991|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-07017-2|page=251}} and the imperial founding of Manchukuo, a puppet state that she described as a slave, having traded one imperial ruler for another.{{sfn|Mackie|2003|p=101}} Her travelogue "Letters from a Trip to Kyushu", written with Fumiko Hayashi, tells of their drinking and meeting men, as two modern women outré for the time period.{{cite book|last=Silverberg|first=Miriam|title=Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f6gwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA63|year=2009|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-26008-5|page=63}}