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Kiyo Makino

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Kiyo Makino
A young Japanese woman wearing a white gown, standing with a chair, holding a fan
Kiyo Makino, from a 1901 Boston newspaper
Born21 June 1875
Japan
Diedafter 1911
Other namesKiyoko Makino
OccupationEducator

Kiyo Makino (born 21 June 1875) was a Japanese educator. From 1902 to 1905, she was the first international woman student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Early life and education

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Makino trained for a teaching career at a normal school in Tokyo.[1] She traveled to Seattle in 1899, studied English in Northfield, Massachusetts for a year,[2] and was a special student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1902[3] to 1905, studying biology and microscopy.[4][5] She is acknowledged as the first international woman student at MIT.[6]

Makino was studying in Boston at the same time as physical educator Inokuchi Akuri, and the women were often mentioned together in news reports.[3][7] She appeared in the cast of a Japanese drama, Danjuro no tanjobi, in Boston in 1904.[8] Also in 1904, she sold her kimono to make a donation to the Japanese war effort.[9] In 1905 she returned to Japan with Mitsu Okada, a Japanese special student at Wellesley College.[10]

Makino, Inokuchi, and Okada were all involved with the Japanese Club of Boston, and raised money for the organization's clubhouse in 1902.[11]

Career

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Makino taught school in Japan in the 1890s,[2] and was a secretary and translator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts while she was a student at MIT.[12][13]

After her return to Japan, Makino taught at St. Margaret's School in Tokyo,[14] St. Hilda's School, and at other girls' schools and women's colleges.[15] She published a textbook on women's health and hygiene in 1908.[15] She was active in Japan's temperance movement.[15]

Publications

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  • Women's Physiology and Hygiene (1908)

References

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  1. ^ "Summary of the News from the Far East". Japan and America. 3: 14. February 1903.
  2. ^ a b "Kiyo Makino". Cambridge Tribune. November 18, 1899. p. 8 – via Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ a b Mortimer, Alice W. (November 21, 1902). "The New Woman of Japan". The Daily Nonpareil. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Technology, Massachusetts Institute of (1915). Register of Former Students with an Account of the Alumni Associations, May 1915. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. p. 328.
  5. ^ "Two Clever Japanese Girls". Fibre & Fabric. 35 (890): 72. March 22, 1902.
  6. ^ MIT Libraries. "Kiyoko Makino (1903-1905)". From Samurai into Engineers. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
  7. ^ "Knowledge for Japan". The Boston Globe. November 10, 1901. p. 48 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Beautiful and Novel Will This Play Be". The Boston Globe. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Sold Her Kimono to Help Japanese War Fund". Boston Post. March 5, 1904. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Personal". Boston Evening Transcript. June 20, 1905. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Japanese to Have Clubhouse". Boston Evening Transcript. April 8, 1902. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (1906). Annual Report of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Museum of Fine Arts. p. 34.
  13. ^ "A Bright Japanese Girl". Kansas City Star. October 26, 1902. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "News from the Classes". Technology Review. 13 (8): 591. November 1911.
  15. ^ a b c MIT Libraries. "Discovering Makino". From Samurai into Engineers. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
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