I am like a wind-blown leaf, with nothing to compare to.

身は風葉の似るものもなし

Ichiyō Higuchi

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Ichiyō Higuchi

Higuchi Ichiyo (1872-1896) was a pioneering Japanese woman writer whose 'miracle fourteen months' of creativity produced masterpieces including 'Child's Play' and 'Troubled Waters.' Despite dying of tuberculosis at just 24, she became the first woman depicted on modern Japanese currency, appearing on the 5,000-yen note.

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Ichiyō Higuchi's Other Quotes

Writing is the work above all other work.

If I refuse to be defeated by hardship, if only I stand firm, the world holds no terror for me.

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