Hirabayashi Taiko
Hirabayashi Taiko (Japanese平林 たい子; actually :平林 タイHirabayashi Tai; born October 3, 1905 in Nagano, † February 17, 1972 ) was a Japanese writer.
Life
Hirabayashi Taiko visited against the will of her mother, the woman high school, but was disappointed with the teaching there. At that time she began to be interested in socialism and the headmaster and poet Tsuchiya Bunmei encouraged her to write.
She went alone to Tokyo and lived together with the anarchists Yamamoto Torazo. Both lived for a short time at Torazōs sister in Korea, but soon returned to Tokyo. After the Kanto earthquake, they were arrested and were under the condition free to leave Tokyo. Then they moved to Torazōs brother in Manchuria, where he was arrested and brought a child into the world at 19 years, which soon died of malnutrition, after which she returned to Tokyo again. This event is also the template for your story Seryōshitsu nite. She described in more socially critical works, the impact of poverty on the lives of women.
After the relationship failed with Torazo, she opted for a placement marriage and married in 1927 Kobori Jinji, author of proletarian literature movement and editor of the journal Bungei scythes ( literature front ). 1937 re-imprisoned for eight months, she fell seriously ill and could no longer write to 1945. It belonged temporarily to the board of the Writers' Union left New Japan Literary Society.
In 1954, she learned that her husband was a five year old daughter had with a former domestic workers, triggering a public debate about their relationship, and in 1955 led to their divorce. During this time she wrote the autobiographical novel Sabaku no Hana, which describes a large part of their lives and from 1955 to 1957 was published in the journal Shufo no Tomo.