ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the experience of modern women, Nogami Yaeko, with penetrating sincerity and honesty, but her philosophic profundity in understanding modern life, her intellectual capacity to view her experiences in a historical and social context, and her mastery of the art of fiction render the traditional category of 'female-school literature' totally inadequate to characterize her works. The author let a day pass, and the following day he left Tokyo Station by the Fuji, seen off by her husband and third son, who promised to follow soon, depending on mother's condition. For, after looking into it on reporting mother's death, we came to know for sure that she was eighty-five. Since, according to the custom of the area, women didn't go to the shrine for the funeral the day before, but simply burned incense before the coffin left, the author didn't feel like missing today's event, however hard it rained, even if we had no car.
