Itō Noe (1895-1923) was a noted anarchist activist. Born in Kyushu, she attended higher school in Tokyo, entered into and fled an arranged marriage, had two sons with her English teacher and became the common-law-wife of famed anarchist, Ōsugi Sakae (1885-1923), with whom she had five children. She was editor from early 1915 until early 1916 of Seitō (Bluestocking), the magazine published by the feminist literary collective of the same name. Until her murder by the state following the 1 September 1923 Great Kanto earthquake, Itō’s literary output included fiction, essays, translations and correspondence, available in her five-volume collected works.