Koda Aya (1904-1990), the youngest daughter of the Meiji novelist Koda Rohan, began her writing career late, after the death of her famous father. Her first works, written when she was 43, were about him -- more particularly, about what life had been like with him.
These articles and essays, which brought her early fame, were seen as those of a dutiful daughter, though she called them "the grumblings of a woman blinded by the light of death."
Life with father, however, was not easy. He apparently once told her that the best way to communicate with him was without words and there are many scenes of similar reserve. Nonetheless, or consequently, she -- as Alan Tansman has written -- "spent her career attempting to communicate with him -- and in some way rejoin him."