Hisa Yoneyama

Hisa Yoneyama
Member of theHouse of Representatives
In office 1946–1947
Constituency	Ishikawa
Personal details
Born	17 January 1897 Kanazawa,Japan
Died	9 February 1981(1981-02-09)(aged 84)

Hisako Yoneyama(Japanese:Mễ sơn cửu tử,17 January 1897 – 9 February 1981) was a Japanese poet, activist and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to theHouse of Representativesin 1946.

Biography

Yoneyama was born inKanazawain 1897 and attendedKanazawa First Girl's High School.She joinedIchikawa Fusae'swomen's suffragemovement and became director of the Kanaza regional branch of the National Defence Women's Association of Japan and deputy director of theIshikawa Prefecturesection.

She contested the1946 general elections,the first in which women could vote, as aJapan Socialist Partycandidate in Ishikawa, and was elected to the House of Representatives.She ran for re-election in1947,but was unsuccessful. She subsequently worked as an advisor to the Japan Buddhist Women's Federation and became involved in the Buddhist Women's Movement.

Yoneyama died in 1981. Ishikawa did not have another female member of parliament untilMieko Tanakain 2009.