Jakucho Setouchi, a woman who loved writing throughout her life, closed her 99-year-long book on November 9th. She was merely one of the celebrities that I would occasionally glance at on the media until she was brought up in a conversation with a friend last year when I mentioned my passion for writing. “I loved, I wrote, and I prayed,” is the phrase that Jakucho chose for her gravestone, which describes how she lived in brevity.