You can confirm Ichiyo's enthusiasm for literature and trace back the process before she entered "Miraculous 14 Months."
Although Ichiyo produced a few novels, including "Koto-no Ne" and "Hnagomori," during her stay in Shitaya Ryusenji-machi, unfinished manuscripts of the first and second volumes of Hanagomori are kept and exhibited in the Ichiyo Memorial Museum. While her anxiousness - she could not write enough due to the busyness of her family business - can be felt, the process - she went beyond expressing her loneliness and recounting a tragic love, and gradually developed her skill of magnanimously depicting the reality and subtleties of emotions of people at the lower levels of society through the everyday experience, including her grocery business - can be read from the descriptions in "Jinchu Nikki Konze-shu" and others.
Pages of "Hanagomori" in "Bungakukai," Vol. 14
Unfinished manuscripts of the first volume of Hanagomori (latter part) -- Ichiyo's throes of creation, and trial and error can be seen.
An information board, which looks like a warm wooden wall of a town house, reminiscent of that of Ryusenji-machi, hangs at the entrance of the Ichiyo Memorial Hall.
