Shūsei Tokuda
Shūsei Tokuda | |
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 Shūsei Tokuda | |
| Born | 1 February 1872 Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan |
| Died | 18 November 1943 (aged 71) Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Novels |
| Literary movement | naturalism |
Shūsei Tokuda (徳田 秋声, Tokuda Shūsei, 1 February 1872 – 18 November 1943, actually Tokuda Sueo) was a Japanese author from Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture. Several of his novels were made into movies in Japan. A monument honoring Tokuda was erected near the summit of Mount Utatsu in 1947. The monument features writing authored by poet Murō Saisei and was designed by architect Yoshirō Taniguchi.
Life[]
Coming from a family of the former feudal nobility, Tokuda began his literary life as a follower of the writer Ozaki Kōyō, who was four years his senior and had already established himself as a literary man in the late 1880s. Their relationship wasn't to last long, though, with Kōyō dying in 1903, after which Tokuda began to move from Kōyō's style of romanticism into a mixture of naturalism and the confessional known as Shizen-shugi (自然主義), an example of which is his 1908 novel Arajotai (新世帯), which dealt with the frustrations of a young working-class couple.
After the publication of Ashiato (足迹) in 1910, Tokuda would release his most autobiographical work, Kabi (黴), in 1911, a classic example of the Japanese genre known as the I-novel (私小説). His 1915 novel あらくれ would be translated into English by Richard Torrance and published by University of Hawaii Press in 2001 as Rough Living.
After the death of his wife in 1926, Tokuda began a series of relationships with younger women, which would inspire his later works, especially his best-known Kasō jinbutsu (仮装人物), released from 1935 to 1938, as well as Shukuzu (縮図) from 1941.
About his writings[]
He wrote "Rough Living".[1]
His short story "The Town Dance Hall" is in the Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature.[2]
His short story "Order of the White Paulownia" is in the anthology "modern japanese stories" edited by Ivan Morris.[3]
A major biography of Tokuda by Richard Torrance was published in 1994.[4]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Shusei, Tokuda (28 February 2001). Rough Living. ISBN 0824823877.
- ^ https://www.amazon.com/Columbia-Anthology-Modern-Japanese-Literature/dp/0231118600
- ^ Morris, Ivan (1962). Modern Japanese Stories: An Anthology. ISBN 0804833362.
- ^ "The Fiction of Tokuda Shusei, and the Emergence of Japan's New Middle Class", Washington University Press
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- Shūsei Tokuda at IMDb
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