In this groundbreaking novel, Fumiko Hayashi tells the powerful story of tormented love and one woman's struggle to navigate the cruel realities of postwar Japan. The novel's characters, particularly its resilient heroine Koda Yukiko, find themselves trapped in their own drifting, unable to break ou[...]
An examination of writing by Japanese women, this text aims to advance the debate over the literary category of women's literature in modern Japan and show its complex and contradictory consequences in the life and work of Hayashi Fumiko (1903-1951). The novels Horoki and Suisen are analyzed.[...]