Higuchi Ichiyo, Japan\'s first woman writer of stature in modern times, was born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four.
This book is made up of a critical biography, interlaced with extracts from the diary, and Robert Danly\'s translations of Nine representative stories..
In her brief Life she wrote poems, essays, short Stories and a great, multivolume diary.
Higuchi Ichiyo, Japan\'s first woman writer of stature in modern times, was born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four