Higuchi Ichiyo 樋口一葉
novelist · Tokyo, Japan · 1872–1896
A writer who lost her father, took on the family at seventeen, and wrote fiction while keeping a small general store near the pleasure quarter. She died at twenty-four.
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1895 · Picturing the neighbourhood behind the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter, where the children grow up
Go round to the front and the willow of backward glances at the great gate trails long; the lamps of the three-storey houses are mirrored in the Blackened-Teeth Ditch and their uproar seems close enough to touch; and from the rickshaws coming and going day and night you can guess at a prosperity beyond reckoning
廻れば大門の見返り柳いと長けれど、お齒ぐろ溝に燈火うつる三階の騷ぎも手に取る如く、明けくれなしの車の行來にはかり知られぬ全盛をうらなひてTakekurabe (Growing Up), the opening
1 in 100 Billion · The social network of those who came before us