Kosugi Tengai
Kosugi Tengai ( Japanese 小 杉 天 外 ; real name: Kosugi Tamezō ( 小 杉 為 蔵 ); * November 7, 1865 Rokugō (today: Misato ), Akita Prefecture ; † September 1, 1952 ) was a Japanese writer.
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Kosugi Tengai was born in Akita Prefecture, moved to Tōkyō in 1886 and attended college there, which he soon left. From 1891 he trained under Saitō Ryokuu (1867-1904). In 1897 he began to work for the magazine "Shincho Gekkan" (新潮 月刊), but then switched to the newspaper "Hōchi Shimbun" (報 知 新聞).
Kosugi began his literary career as an author of light entertainment literature before he turned to Japanese naturalism, especially under the influence of the works of Émile Zola . With works such as Hatsusugata ( は つ 姿 , 1900), Hayari-uta ( は や り 唄 ) and Makaze koikaze ( 魔 風 恋 風 , 1903) he is considered one of the pioneers of this literary direction in Japan.
In 1948 Kosugi was elected to the Japanese Academy of Arts ( Nihon Geijutsu-in ).
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- S. Noma (Ed.): Kosugi Tengai . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 833.
- Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 564 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
- Tooson Shimazaki: "Chikuma River Sketches" , University of Hawaii Press, 1991, ISBN
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kosugi, Tengai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 小 杉 天 外 (Japanese); Kosugi Tamezō (real name); 小 杉 為 蔵 (real name, Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rokugō (today: Misato , Akita Prefecture ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1952 |