Hayashi Fumiko
Hayashi Fumiko (林 芙美子, 1903 or 1904 - June 28, 1951) was a Japanese novelist and poet. When Fumiko was seven, her mother ran away with a manager of her common-law husband's store, and afterwards the three worked in Kyushu as itinerant merchants. After graduating from high school in 1922, Hayashi moved to Tokyo with a lover and lived with several men until settling into marriage with the painter Tezuka Rokubin (手塚 緑敏) in 1926. Many of her works centre around themes of free spirited women and troubled relationships. One of her best-known works is Hōrōki (放浪記, 1930), which was adapted into the anime Wandering Days. Another is her late novel Ukigumo (浮雲, 1951), which was made into a movie in 1955. See also: Japanese literature, List of Japanese authors
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