On the Literary Afterlife of Japan’s First Working Woman Writer
In February 1894, Higuchi Ichiyō was desperate. Aged only twenty-one and poverty-stricken, she visited a celebrated fortune-teller, hoping that he might change her luck. “I was born in the ye…
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Higuchi Ichiyō, Japan's first working woman writer, faced dire poverty at just twenty-one, seeking fortune in a fortune-teller's predictions. Her literary legacy reflects the struggles and aspirations of women in a changing society.
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