Yuriko Miyamoto (February 13, 1899 - January 21, 1951) was a Japanese writer, active during the Taishō and Shōwa periods. His birth name was Chūjō Yuriko. Miyamoto Yuriko was born in Tokyo to a middle-upper class family. Her father was a professor of architecture at the Imperial University of Tokyo. From a young age, Yuriko became interested in feminism and activism. Even in her youth, she became linked to the Women's University of Japan, where she began to take her first steps in literature, wrote the short story Mazushiki hitobito no mure (A multitude of poor people), which was accepted by the prestigious Chūō Kōron magazine in September 1916, and which would end up winning an award given by the Shirakaba literary circle. He dropped out of college without graduating, and traveled to the United States with his father. She studied at Columbia University, and there she met her first husband, Araki Shigeru. The couple would divorce in 1924. Her autobiographical book, Nobuko (1924–1926) recounts the shortcomings of her first marriage, her travels, and how she was able to achieve independence as a single woman.