Niwa Jun'ichirō
Niwa Jun'ichirō ( Japanese 丹羽 純 一郎 , actually Oda Jun'ichirō 織田 純 一郎 ; * May 22, 1852 ; † February 3, 1919 ) was a Japanese writer and translator.
Niwa went to Great Britain to study immediately after the Meiji Restoration . Upon his return he published Karyū shun'wa , a transcription of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel Ernest Maltravers . With the work published in 1879, he presented one of the earliest adaptations of a Western European literary work in Japan.
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- Joshua S. Mostow, "Modern East Asian Literature" , Columbia University Press, 2003, ISBN 9780231113144 , p. 60
- John Scott Miller: "Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater" , Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 9780810858107 , p. 89
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| SURNAME | Niwa, Jun'ichirō |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 丹羽 純 一郎 (Japanese); Oda, Jun'ichirō (real name); 織田 純 一郎 (real name, Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese translator and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1852 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 1919 |