Vol. 5August 2026

十三夜

樋口一葉

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ENG

The Thirteenth Night

十三夜

樋口一葉 · Japanese

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樋口一葉

Higuchi Ichiyō (1872-1896) was a Japanese novelist who wrote in classical literary style about women and children living at the edge of poverty. Child's Play and Troubled Waters came out of a working life of about fourteen months. She died at twenty-four and now appears on the Japanese five thousand yen note.

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