Literary Career
While in her teens and a freshman in the English literature department of Japan Women's University, she wrote a short story, Mazushiki hitobito no mure (A Crowd of Poor People), which was accepted for publication in the prestigious Chūō Kōron (Central Forum) literary magazine in September 1916, and which subsequently won a literary prize sponsored by the Shirakaba (White Birch) literary circle.
Leaving the university without graduating, she traveled to the United States together with her father. She studied at Columbia University and met her first husband, Araki Shigeru. The couple would divorced in 1924. Her semi-autobiographical novel Nobuko (1924–1926) relates the failure of this marriage, her travels abroad, and finding independence as a single woman.
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