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Fumiko Hayashi

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December 31, 1903

Died

June 28, 1951

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Fumiko Hayashi (林芙美子), December 31, 1903 or 1904 (Japanese sources disagree on the birth year) - June 28, 1951) was a Japanese novelist and poet.

When Hayashi was seven, her mother ran away with a manager of her common-law husband's store, and afterwards the three worked in Kyūshū 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 Rokubin Tezuka (手塚緑敏?) in 1926.

Many of her works revolve around themes of free spirited women and troubled relationships. One of her best-known works is Hōrōki (translated into English as "Vagabond's Song" or "Vagabond's Diary") (放浪記, 1927), which was adapted into the anime Wandering Days. ...more

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	Floating Clouds by Fumiko Hayashi, Lane Dunlop (Translator) 3.53 avg rating — 524 ratings — published 1951 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diario de una vagabunda by Fumiko Hayashi, Virginia Meza (Translator) 3.77 avg rating — 368 ratings — published 1927 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lampi by Fumiko Hayashi, Paola Scrolavezza (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 1936 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kitsune. 13 opowieści o lisach by Fumiko Hayashi, Masao Kusuyama, Kenji Miyazawa 3.78 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Downfall and Other Stories by Fumiko Hayashi, J.D. Wisgo (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beautiful Dog really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	"I Saw A Pale Horse" and Selected Poems from "Diary of a Vagabond" (Cornell East Asia Series) by Fumiko Hayashi, Janice Brown (Translator) 3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1951 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Days & Nights: Stories of classic Japanese women's literature by Fumiko Hayashi, J.D. Wisgo (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tokyo 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	晩菊 [Bangiku] 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Let's get naked and while we're at it work our damnedest.”
― Hayashi Fumiko

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“Vivre me causait un ennui du réel.”
― Fumiko Hayashi, Vagabonde

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“Je me demandais comment il était possible que notre monde ne soit plus qu'une accumulation de défauts.”
― Fumiko Hayashi, Vagabonde

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