Her education was interrupted by the death of her mother when she was 14, which left her and her sister to care for their siblings.
After being introduced to him by a friend of her father's, she showed one of her stories to Ozaki Kōyō, who took her on as his first female apprentice.
The short story was well-received, with one reporter calling her "Murasaki of the Meiji period" and another describing her as the "female Ozaki Kōyō".
Instead, the themes and content of her work shows a sense of resignation and dissatisfaction with the status quo.
[1] However, her health took a precipitous decline after giving birth, and she died of intestinal tuberculosis on November 5, 1900.