Osaki Midori: The World of Wandering in the Realm of the Seventh Sense (Part 2) / 尾崎翠・「第七官界彷徨」の世界

Osaki Midori (1896–1971) left behind only a few literary works before returning to her home in Tottori and falling silent. Yet these few avant-garde texts are now recognized as crucial to the study of Japanese women’s modernist literature. As a woman writer who ignored the strict gender divisions of her time, her works continue to resonate with readers today. The mystery behind her forced return to Tottori and retirement from writing has prompted new attention to her life story, which seems to illustrate the conflict for women between a literary career and family obligations, and the realms she created in avant-garde prose that transcend the bounds of reality.