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A Certain Woman

novel by Arishima
Also known as: “Aru onna”

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discussed in biography

  • Arishima Takeo.
    In Arishima Takeo

    Arishima received wider recognition with Aru onna. Yōko, the novel’s heroine, is totally unlike any previous heroine of modern Japanese fiction—strong-willed, decisive in her actions though capricious, and full of intense vitality. For the book’s earliest readers, her independence represented a rejection of women’s traditional place in Japanese society.

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heroine modeled on Kunikida’s wife