Jakuchō Setōchi , (is a Buddhist nun, a Japanese activist and writer. Its old name is Harumi Setōchi (瀬戸内晴美).

She was born with Tokushima in 1922. She studied the Japanese literature with the Tokyo Joshi Daigaku (東京女子大学, Christian Université of the Young girls of Tokyo). After a divorce, it begins its literary career.

Its first work, Kashin , are criticized for pornography (she tells the forfeiture of a woman who gave up husband and child by love) but the author obtains a certain recognition as a writer in 1963 with the end of the summer ( Natsu No Owari ).

In 1973, it takes the name of Jakuchō by pronouncing its Buddhist wishes. It enters then to the Chūsonji temple to Hiraizumi, Préfecture of Iwate.

It receives the Prix Tanizaki in 1992 for Hana nor toe (litt. Request with the Flowers ).

Jakuchō Setōchi is also famous for its translation in modern Japanese of the Dit of Genji in ten volumes, published into 1998 which was sold with more than two million specimens.

She also wrote the biography of the feminist Toshiko Tamura, and taken Noah Itō (another Japanese feminist, killed in 1923 at the time of the incident of Amakasu) like character of a novel.