Hirotsu Ryūrō
Hirotsu Ryūrō ( Japanese 広 津 柳浪 ; * July 15, 1861 in Nagasaki ; † October 25, 1928 ) was a Japanese writer.
Life
Hirotsu Ryūrō left Nagasaki in 1874 and went to Tōkyō, where he graduated from school in 1877. From 1881 to 185 he was a civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture and Trade. In 1889, Hirotsu met Ozaki Kōyō and joined the literary group Ken'yusha .
In 1895 Hirotsu published two stories that brought him wide literary recognition: "Tale of strange eyes" (変 目 伝, Heme-den) and "Black lizards" (黒 蜥蜴, Kuro-tokage). These were the first of his numerous “tragic novels” (悲惨 小説, Hisan shōsetsu), among which “Double suicide in Imado” (今 戸 心中, Imado shinjū) is the best known.
Without being a pacifist, he reflects in later works such as Hikokumin (An Unpatriotic Man) the war fatigue in Japan after the Sino-Japanese War . With their melodramatic plot, broken heroes and tragic outcomes, his novels were very successful and popular. Nevertheless, he stopped writing after 1908.
Hirotsu's stories are never entirely free from the influences of the popular literature (戯 作, Gesaku) of the Edo period . They are full of exaggeration and disbelief, overly romantic, melodramatic. The stories are driven by unfortunate experiences and end in a destructive fate.
His son Hirotsu Kazuo was also known as a writer.
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- S. Noma (Ed.): Hirotsu Ryūrō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 542.
- Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 320 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
- Kafū Nagai, Mitsuko Iriye: "American stories" , Columbia University Press, 2000, ISBN 9780231117906 , p. IX
- Nobuya Bamba, John F. Howes: "Pacifism in Japan: the Christian and socialist tradition" , UBC Press, 1978, ISBN 9780774800723 , p. 130
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hirotsu, Ryūrō |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 広 津 柳浪 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nagasaki |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1928 |