Miyagi Tamayo (宮城タマヨ, Miyagi Tamayo, 1 February 1892 – 19 November 1960), née Ueda (植田, Ueda),[1][2] was a Japanese social worker and politician who was a member of the House of Councillors.
Biography
Miyagi Tamayo was born on 1 February 1892[1] in Yamaguchi town in Yoshiki District, Yamaguchi, the second daughter of Ueda Kyūnojō (植田久之丞).[1][2] She graduated from the Nara Girl's Higher Normal School Natural History Department in March 1914,[3][4] and she later became an assistant teacher at her alma mater.[5]
In 1957, she heard Westminster Quarters while in England, and she came up with the idea of giving "mother bells" as presents; by 1959, she had installed them in sixty-four locations across Japan, including juvenile institutions and women's guidance homes.[1][3]