← Fumiko HayashiHorokiby Fumiko HayashiAutobiographical account of a woman wandering through poverty-stricken JapanFind on Amazon↗About the authorFumiko HayashiJapanese novelist of the Taisho and Showa eras whose autobiographical Diary of a Vagabond captured the hardships of a woman artist living in poverty with startling candor and lyrical energy.More by Fumiko HayashiDiary of a VagabondSemi-autobiographical diary of a woman's life as a traveling worker in Japan→Floating CloudNovel portraying the melancholic affair between a widow and a former lover→A Late ChrysanthemumShort story collection exploring the quiet dignity of ordinary lives→