Background
Her mother died when Shigeko was 10 years old.
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Her mother died when Shigeko was 10 years old.
She matriculated in a girl"s school in 1919 in Kobe to learn music, but her family was against that. From 1925 to 1929, she lived in France, where she learnt composition and piano. After their divorce in 1945, she started writing storybooks for children because she had money problems.
The editor in chief of the magazine Sakuhin (作品) encouraged her to write novels.
Her novel Jochūkko (1951) was made into a film by Tomotaka Tasaka (田坂 具隆) in 1955. She died of a blood poisoning related to diabetes mellitus.