A Note from Ichiyo by Rei Kimura

“A Note from Ichiyo” tells the turbulent life, struggles and achievements of Ichiyo Higuchi, a young Japanese female writer of extraordinary talent and the tongue in cheek ability to effortlessly cut through all the rigid constraints of being a woman in a man’s world who ended up having the world, including some of the most prominent male writers, at her feet -- grudgingly so but still at her feet!