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          Fumiko Hayashi (author)

          Japanese novelist and poet

          Fumiko Hayashi (林芙美子, Hayashi Fumiko, December 31, – June 28, ) 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 , 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 , 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 Rokubin Tezuka in