# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/noriko-ibaragi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:06:31.294Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/noriko-ibaragi"
name: "Noriko Ibaragi"
slug: "noriko-ibaragi"
description: "Noriko Ibaragi  was a Japanese poet, playwright, essayist, children's literature writer, and translator. She is most well known for her poem, Watashi ga ichiban kirei datta toki , written twelve years after the Japanese defeat in WWII. In 1953, she co-founded the literary journal Kai (\"Oars\"). She began to learn Korean as a second language at the age of fifty, going on to publish her own translations of poetry by her Korean contemporaries."
tagline: "Japanese poet and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ibaragi_Noriko_in_1946.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-06-12"
deathDate: "2006-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.48
  momentum:             2.74873257287706
  historical:           9.023025333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d860e1de-1bea-431c-915b-28dbfad48cda"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%89"
    title: "نوريكو ايباراجى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriko_Ibaragi"
    title: "Noriko Ibaragi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibaragi_Noriko"
    title: "Ibaragi Noriko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriko_Ibaragi"
    title: "Noriko Ibaragi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriko_Ibaragi"
    title: "Noriko Ibaragi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriko_Ibaragi"
    title: "Noriko Ibaragi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8C%A8%E6%9C%A8%E3%81%AE%E3%82%8A%E5%AD%90"
    title: "茨木のり子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EB%B0%94%EB%9D%BC%EA%B8%B0_%EB%85%B8%EB%A6%AC%EC%BD%94"
    title: "이바라기 노리코"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8C%A8%E6%9C%A8%E5%88%99%E5%AD%90"
    title: "茨木则子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1655747"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump