Famous People of Japan
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Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田 光代, Kakuta Mitsuyo, born 8 March 1967) is a Japanese author born in Yokohama. She has been engaged in translating into modern Japanese the 11th-century proto-novel The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部).

Source: “Mitsuyo Kakuta”, English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), excerpt