Ichiyō Higuchi (2 May, 1872 – 23 November, 1896) was a Japanese author during the Meiji period (1868 – 1912).
- Her real name was Natsu Higuchi.
- Even though she died at the age of 24, her stories had a large impact on Japanese literature.
- Her father was a law-rank samurai (a rank which he bought and lost), a municipal worker and lost the family’s money on a failed business.
- At the ager of 14, the author started to study classical poetry at the Haginoya, the best poetic classical conservatory.
- Her diary was hundreds of pages long.
- Higuchi helped the family by doing needlework, washing and more. When her classmate, Kaho Tanabe, wrote a novel, she decided to help her family financially by being a novelist.
- Later on Higuchi, her mother and sister moved to a poor neighborhood and opened a stationary store.
- The experience of living in a poor neighborhood, next to the prostitutes’ district, supplied ample material for Higuchi’s stories.
- Her stories were about suffering and sensitive, as well as acceptance of low-life persons as protagonists.
- The author died of tuberculosis.
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