One recurring image in a work by this author is that of the title character's tubercular father crawling across the snow, while coughing up blood and threatening anyone who approached him with a knife.
One recurring image in a work by this author is that of the title character's tubercular father crawling across the snow, while coughing up blood and threatening anyone who approached him with a knife. The title character of that work by this author herself shows up at the house of her lover Shinoba with a knife, causing him to throw her to the ground, before Kazue embarks on a series of affairs with Joji, Nazoki, and others while finding success as a writer. In addition to The Story of a Single Woman, this author wrote about a man who weds Tomoko, before she abandons him after only a couple of months to runaway with Kurota; that novel by this author opens with the aggressive Takao sending letter after letter to Yuasa Joji, and ends after he and his lover Tsuyuko fail in their attempt at a love suicide. For 10 points, name this controversial 20th century female author of Confessions of Love. 
One recurring image in a work by this author is that of the title character's tubercular father crawling across the snow, while coughing up blood and threatening anyone who approached him with a knife.
Uno Chiyo [prompt on "Chiyo"]