 In 1922 her poems were published for the first time in "Shi to jinsei" ("Poetry and life").Working at the Koroku café-bar in Hongo, near Tokyo University, she met Nakano Shigeharu who would remain a lifelong friend.Along with Nakano, left-wing writers Hori Tatsuo and Tsurujirō Kubokawa ran the progressive literary magazine "Roba" (Donkey).