Chiyo Tsutsumi

Chiyo Tsutsumi was a Japanese short story writer. She was best known for her short story Koyubi and her serial novel Waga Ie no Kaze.

Biography Tsutsumi was born Fumiko Tsutsumi on September 20, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan. She had a congenital heart condition that meant that she could not attend elementary school, and was instead self-taught.

She married Riichi Fukutome, an engineer, in 1944. A few years before her death in 1955, Tsutsumi became partially paralyzed from thrombosis. She continued writing with Riichi's help, and he often drove her to visit art galleries and kabuki plays even after she became paralyzed. Tsutsumi died on November 10, 1955.

Sachiko Schierbeck writes that though Tsutsumi's career was cut short by her death, her work offers a glimpse into Imperial Japan's aggressive nationalism before and during World War II, and notes that her female characters are strong women who embody Confucian values.