Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
After returning home, Okamoto continued her researches into Buddhism, but also found time to a novelette called "Tsuru wa Yamiki" ("The Dying Crane"), describing the last days of writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, while staying at an inn near Kamakura Station in the summer of 1923. Published in the magazine "Bungakukai" in 1936, it marked the start of her activity with prose fiction.