Kanoko Okamoto was one of the first contributors to the influential Japanese women's magazine Bluestocking. An authority on Buddhism, she frequently revisited the effect of a person's familial ancestral karma on their present-day lives.
Read Japanese Literature#womenintranslationmonth begins August 1, and RJL is psyched! Every day in August, we'll be posting a short bio of a Japanese woman writer* who takes up feminist themes in her stories. Stay tuned for an August episode on Japanese Women Writers.* readjapaneseliterature.com/Book+lists/J...