Noriko Ibaragi

(after marriage)|birth_date= June 12, 1926|birth_place=Osaka|death_date= February 17, 2006 (age 79)|occupation=|language=Japanese, Korean|nationality=Japanese|notableworks=|spouse=Miura Yasunobu|awards=Yomiuri Prize}}

was a Japanese poet, playwright, essayist, children's literature writer, and translator. She is most well known for her poem, , written twelve years after the Japanese defeat in WWII. In 1953, she co-founded the literary journal ''Kai'' ("Oars"). She began to learn Korean as a second language at the age of fifty, going on to publish her own translations of poetry by her Korean contemporaries. Provided by Wikipedia