500 Great Books By Women discussion

Takekurabe, Higuchi Ichiyo, translated from Japanese by Edward Seidensticker, Robert Danly, and others, 1894/1896?, Japan, NOVEL

"...Higuchi Ichiyo (1872-1896), whom Donald Keene termed the "principal woman novelist of the Meiji period," wrote the novella Takekurabe (given both "Growing Up" and "Child's Play" as titles in English(*)) in the final year of her lamentably brief life, struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 24. Despite her necessarily small output, Ichiyo is an influential figure in Japanese literature..."

(Steve, review)