At the age of seventeen she entered the literature faculty of Nihon Joshi Daigaku Japan Women's University.

However, the long commute by foot, from her home affected her health and forced her to withdraw after only a single term.

She followed this with Miira no kuchibeni ("Lip Rouge on a Mummy", 1913), and Onna Sakusha ("Woman Writer", 1913).

She became a best-selling writer, and contributed numerous works to such mainstream literary magazines as Chūō Kōrōn and Shincho.

In 1918, she left her husband Tamura Shogyo to follow her lover, Asahi Shimbun journalist Suzuki Etsu, to Vancouver, in Canada, where she lived until 1936.