 She also excelled in embroidery, winning a gold medal for her work at an exhibition in Rome.After her husband's death in 1927, two Japanese newspapers, the Osaka Mainichi Shinbun and the Tokyo Nichinichi Shinbun, found out about her story and published a serialized novel about it, bringing Tamayo to fame in her homeland.By then she could barely speak Japanese anymore, but she decided to go back.