Project Update

Three short story authors: Higuchi Ichiyo (pre-war), Kono Taeko, Kurahashi Yumiko (both post-war)

Shared themes: 

Women, agency, suffering 

Descriptive, reflective, wonder

Death, illness

Significance in the every day, mundanity of life

Stylistic differences:

Higuchi – more poetic, elements of middle/working class struggle

Kono – more straightforward, witty, raw

Kurahashi – more experimental, elements of social order

More authors to look at: Hayashi Fumiko, Yamada Eimi

Poets: Tawara Machi, Yasumi Rie, Ito Hiromi

References:

Danly, Robert Lyons, and Ichiyō Higuchi. In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyō, a Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan. New Haven: Yale UP, 1981. Print.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taeko_Kono#Biography

http://www.catranslation.org/blogpost/a-short-guide-to-kono-taeko

http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/cjw/item/327-taeko-kono

http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/1082-yumiko-kurahashi

http://what-when-how.com/writers/kurahashi-yumiko-kumagai-yumiko-writer/