In February 1894, Higuchi Ichiyō was desperate. Aged only twenty-one and poverty-stricken, she visited a celebrated fortune-teller, hoping that he might change her luck. “I was born in the year of the monkey, on the twenty-fifth day of the third
In February 1894, Higuchi Ichiyō was desperate. Aged only twenty-one and poverty-stricken, she visited a celebrated fortune-teller, hoping that he might change her luck. “I was born in the year of the monkey, on the twenty-fifth day of the third
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