Hayashi Fubo
Hayashi Fubō ( Japanese 林 不忘 ; actually: Hasegawa Kaitarō ( 長谷川 海 太郎 ), born January 17, 1900 in Tokuwa, Akadomari , Sado-gun (today: Sado ), Niigata Prefecture ; † June 29, 1935 in Yukinoshita, Kamakura ) was a Japanese writer. He published under three different pseudonyms - in addition to Hayashi Fubō still Maki Itsuma ( 牧 逸 馬 ) and Tani Jōji ( 谷 譲 次 ) - each embodied different writer personalities.
Life
Hayashi attended middle school in Hakodate until 1917 and then went to the USA, where he studied at Oberlin College a . a. financed by working as a cook. After returning to Japan in 1924, he joined a group of crime writers around Matsumoto Tai . Here he met Morishita Uson , for whose journal Shin-his (New Youth) he wrote the series Meriken Jappu under the name Tani Jōji . A first volume of the stories appeared in 1927 under the title Jappu shobai orai .
As a novelist Hayashi Fubo he created the figure of the one-eyed and one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen . As Maki Itsuma, he wrote mystery stories like Yokuso no hanayome (The Bride in the Bathtub).
In 1935, Hayashi Fubo died of acute bronchial asthma. His brother Hasegawa Shirō was also known as a writer.
Web links
- Kamakura City, Kamakura´s Literary Figures - Biography
- Bumblehood: Famous people in arts and culture of Chubu region - biography
- は こ だ て 人物 誌 長谷川 海 太郎 . HakodateCity,accessed May 2, 2010(Japanese).
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| SURNAME | Hayashi, Fubo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 林 不忘 (Japanese); Hasegawa Kaitarō (real name); 長谷川 海 太郎 (Japanese, real name); Maki Itsuma (pseudonym); 牧 逸 馬 (Japanese, pseudonym); Tani Jōji (pseudonym); 谷 譲 次 (Japanese, pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th January 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokuwa, Akadomari , Sado-gun (today: Sado ), Niigata Prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1935 |
| Place of death | Yukinoshita, Kamakura |