In The Shade Of Spring Leaves: The
Life Of Higuchi Ichiyo, With Nine Of
Her Best Stories by Danly Lyons
Robert
One Of The Great Classics Of World Literature
Higuchi Ichiyo, Japans first woman writer of stature in modern times, was
born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four. In her brief life she wrote
poems, essays, short stories and a great, multivolumed diary. This book is
made up of a critical biography, interlaced with extracts from the diary, and
Robert Danlys translations of nine representative stories.
Personal Review: In The Shade Of Spring Leaves: The Life Of
Higuchi Ichiyo, With Nine Of Her Best Stories by Danly Lyons
Robert
After celebrating a golden age that was hundreds of years ahead of other
civilized nations, women in Japan quickly fell from the cultural vanguard

they had enjoyed during the Heian and were silent throughout the
succession of bakufu governments that ended with the Meiji restoration in
1868. Ichiyo is widely credited as one of the first female voices to re-
emerge after this extended silence. Though her career was cut short by
her early death, several of her short stories are still in wide circulation in
Japan and elsewhere. The beauty of this book is that it not only includes
her own writings but also a rather deftly crafted biography. It has been my
experience that non-Japanophiles tend to shy away from Japanese
literature for lack of understanding the culture. The inclusion of the
biography in this work makes it more approachable for those wishing to
delve into the world of Japanese literature without undertaking a study of
Japan's history and culture.
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