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“Ippon no Hana” by Yuriko Miyamoto - as a symbolic image of an independent woman- Lee, Sang-Bok “Ippon no Hana (One Flower)” is meaningful due to Yuriko Miyamoto’s final work in her early period before leaving for the Soviet Union. Despite Asako said she loved Sachiko, the heroine surprised herself because she was mentally disturbed by a proposal of Mr Ohira. However she denied the marriage. Asako understood women always sacrificed on their lives for marriages and their “half-opened flowers” were not able to bloom compleately because of the inertia of the male-centered society. Regarding the jobs for female, she expressed her negative emotion against male supremacy over the society through her experiences with female victims of discriminations in a social welfare cooperation. However she also indicated the diversified advancement through the professionalization of intellectual women, and suggested that women were about to establish their spiritual and internal world views as well as the financial independence. In the later part of the novel the author wrote that Asako had a desire to discontinue her monotonous life with Sachiko and participate in the society. Consequently it can be said that “Ippon no Hana (One Flower)” raised various possibilities of women to seek their own lives, which are based on the issue of women’s self and subjectivity in the contradictive society.