Miyoko Matsutani
Matsutani was born on 14 February 1926 in Tokyo, Japan. She was the youngest child of  who was a lawyer and politician. She was a good reader. She graduated from high school in 1943. When she was 11 years old, her father died. Because of death of her father, her family could not afford to send her to college. She worked at a bank called Nihon Kangyō Ginkō and the Japan Travel Bureau. In 1945, when Bombing of Tokyo occurred during World War II, her family moved out to the city of Nakano in Nagano prefecture. She met  in Nakano city. Tsubota mentored her as a writer.