Kayo Uchimoto

Kayo Uchimoto (団本勝代, Uchimoto Kayo) was a female member of Ōkamigakure's Uchimoto Clan and daughter of Nori Uchimoto, who was at that time, the first village head. She had an important role in developing the literature of her village. Kayo worked as a chronicler and an anthropologist; her purpose was to write a history of the known clans. She wrote under the pseudonym Bunko (文子, Bunko).

Background
Kayo was born in the Uchimoto Clan as the daughter of Nori and Annaisha Uchimoto. In her childhood, she was very fond of literature and history, as well as of calligraphy. She inherited her father's passion for writing and she started composing short stories. Later on, Kayo started studying the history of the other clans, while making field and cultural observations of them and their traditions. All the data she gathered was used to create a historical trilogy (which can be regarded as a historical novel). Kayo died unmarried, later in her eighties and was buried alongside her family.