Shigure Hasegawa

Hasegawa Shigure was a Japanese playwright and editor of a literary journal. Hasegawa was the only woman to be featured in three volumes of the Meiji bungaku zenshū, a collection published by Chikuma Shobō, and she had the title joryū bundan no ōgosho ; Barbara Hartley, author of "The space of childhood memories: Hasegawa Shigure and Old Nihonbashi," cited these facts when describing Hasegawa as "a major literary figure" of the era prior to World War II.