For a while, she moves into a flat in the working class district of Koto-ku, Tokyo, eager to keep the connection to "the masses" she writes about, but later returns to the family home in Ogikubo.
The Japan Proletarian Writers Alliance, which Sata and her husband Tsurujirō Kubokawa had belonged to, had dissolved the previous year,[5] the Japanese Communist Party had already been outlawed in 1932.
Other characters in the book are based on actual persons as well, like Yuriko Miyamoto (Kishiko in the novella), Sakae Tsuboi and Shigeharu Nakano.
Sata declared that she and Kubokawa would separate, but remain married, and that she planned to publish a novel on the difficulties of contemporary women with combining a job and family life.
[7] In the same year of the appearance of the book's final chapter, Sata published an article which advocated both women's career ambitions and her nation's expansive foreign policy.
[1] In his introduction to the 2016 English edition, Samuel Perry saw Crimson in the tradition of works by woman writers like Shikin Shimizu, Noe Itō and Yuriko Miyamoto, and in the I-novel.