Japanese Buddhist nun

Although Satomi Myodo (1896-1978) was born at the end of the last century in a small farming village on the culturally conservative island of Hokkaido , she had an eventful life. She had aspirations to become a writer, studied at Tokyo University , had a child with a man to whom she was not married, performed in an acting troupe, served for a time as a Shinto medium, and at mid-life became a Zen Buddhist nun.

From at least young adulthood Satomi experienced periods of spontaneous multilevel disintegration, but these were of course preceded by the stage of unileve.

Satomi Myōdō rejected the traditional roles of good wife and wise mother, broke with her unhappy past, and followed her spiritual path beginning as the disciple of a Shinto priest. At midlife she turned to Zen Buddhism.