 This nonconformism pitted "Seitō" not only against the society but the state, contributing to the censorship of women's magazines that "disturbed public order" or introduced "Western ideas about women" incompatible with Japan.The journal folded in 1915, but not before establishing its founder as a leading light in Japan’s women's movement.Meanwhile, in 1914, Hiratsuka began living openly with her younger lover, artist Okumura Hiroshi, with whom she had two children out of wedlock and eventually married in 1941.