Simplify the following text for a Grade 11 native English-speaking person.
Original: Masaoka Shiki , the pen-name of Masaoka Noboru ( æ # å å ) was a Japanese author , poet , literary critic , and journalist in Meiji period Japan .
Simplified: Masaoka Shiki was the pen-name of a Japanese author , poet , literary critic , and journalist in Meiji period of Japan .