Shizue Masugi

born 3 October 1901 in Denga (today: Fukui prefecture); died 29. June 1955 ) was a Japanese author. Most of her works belong to the genre of Japanese "I-Novel" (Shishōsetsu).

Life and work Shizue was born in 1901 as an illegitimate daughter of a shinto priest in Denga (today Fukui prefecture). In 1908, she moved to Taiwan to be with her father, where he worked as high priest in a Shinto shrine. After a brief stay in Japan in 1911, the family returned to Taiwan. Shizue visited a nursing school, finishing her apprenticeship as a nurse in 1916 to a railway employee 13 years her senior, who worked at train station Taichung in Taiwan. In 1921 Shizue separated from him and went back to Ōsaka, Japan where she lived with her grandparents.

First Shizue was a stenographer, then she began to work as a journalist for the Mainichi Shimbun in Mainichi Shimbun. While in Hiroshima, she started a campaign for funds in the Yomiuri for hibakusha girls to receive plastic surgery in Tokyo or Osaka.

In 1953 she travelled to Europe and saw the Coronation of Elizabeth II and took part in a meeting of the PEN International.

Shizue died in 1955 due to lung cancer in Koishikawa university hospital in Tokyo at age 53. Although she became a catholic before her death, she chose to be buried at Tōkei-ji in Kita-Kamakura thumb Shizue Masugi's grave. founded in 1285 by a monk who felt sorry for women with cruel husbands.

Works (Selection) 1939 Hinadori 1940 Sono ato no kōfuku 1940 Aijō no mon 1940 Rekishi monogatari hakkō no himemiya 1941 Nampo kikō 1943 Haha to tsuma 1948 Kaen 1948 Utsukushii hito

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