Hayashi fumiko biography template

Japanese novelist and poet

Fumiko Hayashi (林芙美子, Hayashi Fumiko, December 31, 1903 – June 28, 1951) was a Japanese writer of novels, short stories and poetry, who has repeatedly been included in the feminist literature canon.^[3] Among her best-known works are Diary of a Vagabond, Late Chrysanthemum and Floating Clouds.^[1][2][4]

Biography

Hayashi was born in Moji-ku, Kitakyūshū,^[a] Japan,^[1][2] and raised in abject poverty.^[5] In 1910, her mother Kiku Hayashi divorced her merchant husband Mayaro Miyata (who was not Fumiko's biological father) and married Kisaburo Sawai.^[4] The family then worked as itinerant merchants in Kyūshū.^[4]

After graduating from high school in 1922, Hayashi moved to Tokyo and lived with several men, supporting herself with a variety of jobs,^[5][6] before settling into marriage with painting student hayashi fumiko biography template1 TAW