1909 – 1948

Born in Tokyo, her real name was Kano. While still a student at a girls’ school, she joined Yosano Akiko’s Shinshi-sha (New Poetry Society). She published modern-style poetry and tanka in Myōjō and Subaru. She released the poetry collection Karoki-netami（”Slight Envy”）. In 1929, she traveled to Europe and America to study. After returning to Japan, she gave lectures and wrote as a Buddhist scholar. In 1936, she published Tsuru wa Yamiki (“The Dying Crane”), a novel inspired by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, in Bungei-kai. In the short period before her death, she wrote prolifically, publishing aesthetic and bewitching works such as Boshi Jojō (“The Relationship between Mother and Child”), Kingyo Ryōran (“A Riot of Goldfish”), Rōgishō (“Portrait of an Old Geisha”), and Seisei Ruten (“Lively Ebb and Flow”).