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.
Kiyo Makino | |
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 Kiyo Makino, from a 1901 Boston newspaper | |
| Born | 21 June 1875 Japan |
| Died | after 1911 |
| Other names | Kiyoko Makino |
| Occupation | Educator |
Early life and education
editMakino 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
editMakino 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
edit- Women's Physiology and Hygiene (1908)
References
edit- ^ "Summary of the News from the Far East". Japan and America. 3: 14. February 1903.
- ^ a b "Kiyo Makino". Cambridge Tribune. November 18, 1899. p. 8 – via Newspaper Archive.
- ^ a b Mortimer, Alice W. (November 21, 1902). "The New Woman of Japan". The Daily Nonpareil. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Technology, Massachusetts Institute of (1915). Register of Former Students with an Account of the Alumni Associations, May 1915. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. p. 328.
- ^ "Two Clever Japanese Girls". Fibre & Fabric. 35 (890): 72. March 22, 1902.
- ^ MIT Libraries. "Kiyoko Makino (1903-1905)". From Samurai into Engineers. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
- ^ "Knowledge for Japan". The Boston Globe. November 10, 1901. p. 48 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Beautiful and Novel Will This Play Be". The Boston Globe. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Sold Her Kimono to Help Japanese War Fund". Boston Post. March 5, 1904. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Personal". Boston Evening Transcript. June 20, 1905. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Japanese to Have Clubhouse". Boston Evening Transcript. April 8, 1902. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (1906). Annual Report of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Museum of Fine Arts. p. 34.
- ^ "A Bright Japanese Girl". Kansas City Star. October 26, 1902. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "News from the Classes". Technology Review. 13 (8): 591. November 1911.
- ^ a b c MIT Libraries. "Discovering Makino". From Samurai into Engineers. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
External links
edit- A photograph of Kiyo Makino in 1902, from the Edward S. Morse Collection, Peabody Essex Museum
- Katherine Crowe, "Kiyo Makino, Class of 1905" DDC Blog: MIT Department of Distinctive Collections (April 25, 2017); a blog post about Makino.