[4] She later studied nursing in a special course the Welfare Faculty for Women attached to the Nagasaki Medical School,[3] but left before graduation.
[4] In 1967, her story Procession on a Cloudy Day (Kumoribi no kōshin) was published in Bungei Shuto.
[5] She first drew wide attention in 1975 with an autobiographical story about the bombing, Ritual of Death (Matsuri no ba), which received that year's Akutagawa Prize.
[4] In 1980, Hayashi published her first full-length novel, Naki ga gotoki ("As if nothing had happened"), with a semi-autobiographical lead character.
The Nagasaki theme continued through the 1980s with her collections Sangai no ie ("Home in the three worlds"), which won the Kawabata Prize,[2] and Michi ("The Path").