Chikamatsu Shūkō

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Shūkō Chikamatsu before 1926

Chikamatsu Shūkō ( Japanese 近 松 秋江 ; real name: Tokuda Hiroshi ( 徳 田 浩 司 ); born May 4, 1876 in Okayama Prefecture ; † April 23, 1944 ) was a Japanese writer and literary critic. He was an important exponent of Japanese naturalism and Shishōsetsu .

Life

In his youth he read and appreciated political novels such as Tetchō Suehiros Setchū Ume and Ryūkei Yanos Keikoku bidan . He attended normal school in Okayama and specialized in the history of literature at Tokyo Technical School, later Waseda University . He met Tsubouchi Shōyō and worked for five months at the Hakubunkan publishing house . Then he studied publishing again. He started in 1904 as a journalist at the Chūōkōron-sha publishing house , but stayed with the publishing house for only seven months.

Chikamatsu made his literary debut as a student with a review in the Yomiuri Shimbun . His first novel Shokugo ( 食 後 ) appeared in 1907. The two works that established his literary reputation were the novels Wakaretaru tsuma ni okuru tegami ( 別 れ た る 妻 に 送 る 手紙 , for example: letter to a woman who left me ) and Kurokami ( 黒 髪 , black hair ).

First Chikamatsu used the writer pseudonym Tokuda Shūkō ( 徳 田秋江 ) based on his role model and teacher Tokuda Shūsei . He later changed his pseudonym to Chikamatsu Shūkō based on Chikamatsu Monzaemon . During his student days he also met Hakucho Masamune , with whom he had a long friendship. In old age, Chikamatsu became completely blind.

Works (selection)

Novels

  • 1907 Shokugo ( 食 後 )
  • 1910 Yuki no hi ( 雪 の 日 )
  • 1910 Wakareta tsuma ni okuru tegami ( 別 れ た 妻 に 送 る 手紙 )
  • 1913 Giwaku ( 疑惑 )
  • 1915 Aijaku no nagori ( 愛着 の 名 残 り )
  • 1922 Kurokami ( 黒 髪 )
  • 1922 Kyōran ( 狂乱 )

Translations

  • 1903 Schiller monogatari ( シ ル レ ル 物語 )
  • 1912 Tolstoy ( 生 ひ 立 ち の 記 )

Mixed fonts

  • 1919 Himitsu ( 秘密 )
  • 1923 Shūkō zuihitsu ( 秋江 随筆 )
  • 1923 Futari no hitorimono ( 二人 の 独 り 者 )
  • 1925 Koi kara ai e ( 恋 か ら 愛 へ )
  • 1940 Fusei ( 浮生 )

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 112 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Chikamatsu is the family name, Shūkō the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Chikamatsu Shūkō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 近 松 秋江 (Japanese); Tokuda Hiroshi (real name); 徳 田 丑 太郎 (real name, Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Okayama
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1944