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Morio Kita, 1960

Morio Kita ( Japanese 北 杜夫 , Kita Morio ; * May 1, 1927 in Aoyama , Akasaka , Tokyo (today: Minato , Tokyo ); † October 24, 2011 in Tokyo) was the stage name of Sōkichi Saitō ( 斎 藤 宗 吉 , Saitō Sōkichi ) , a Japanese writer and psychiatrist. He was the second son of the doctor and Tanka poet Saitō Mokichi and his wife Teruko.

Life

Morio Kita attended Matsumoto High School (which he attended at the same time as the writer Kunio Tsuji and which was also attended by the writers Yoshimi Usui and Junzo Karaki ), which he also used as the setting in Doctor Mambō Seisunki . He then graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Tōhoku University and then practiced in the Keiō University Hospital . One of his fellow students was the later writer, psychiatrist and literary critic Nada Inanda . He got him enthusiastic about writing and the French language.

Morio Kita wrote his first novel, Yūrei (Ghosts) , at the age of 23. Yūrei was published in parts from 1952 to 1953 in the literary magazine Bungei Shuto . In the following year, Kita published a summarized edition at its own expense, of which only 750 were printed. Yūrei was published in 1991 in a translation by Donald Keene . It is the first part of a tetralogy in which u. a. the question is about the origin and the conditions of one's own existence.

In 1960, Kita for In Nacht und Nebel ( Yoru to Kiri no Sumi de ) was honored with the most prestigious Japanese literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize . The award is named after the poet and writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, who, with the help of Kita's father Saitō, committed suicide in 1927 by overdosing on barbital .

In 1961 Morio married Kita. In 1962 his daughter Yuka Saitō was born. In the same year he wrote the fairy tale Funanori Kupukupu no Bōken ("The Adventures of Kupukupu the Sailor"). Although the story was primarily intended for young readers, the book was very popular among university students in the 1960s.

His work Das Haus Nire ( Nire-ke no Hitobito ), published in 1963, occupies a special place in the canon of Japanese post-war literature . It is about the rise and fall of the Nire family and the mental hospital they run. The novel Buddenbrooks - The Fall of a Family has had a major impact on the making of Nire-ke no Hitobito . As early as 1935, Kōichi Satō wrote a dissertation on Thomas Mann. In this first phase of reception, Thomas Mann is mainly observed by specialist Germanists. In 1949, Thomas Mann's plans to visit Japan were dashed. In the same year the first monograph on Thomas Mann appears in Japan. This is also the time when Kita Morio decides to process its own family history as a novel, following the example of the Buddenbrooks. To this end, Morio partially analyzes the structure and structure of Buddenbrooks together with Tsuji Kunio. Not only are the plot and content of the two novels congruent, Kita has also processed many autobiographical facts. While four generations are portrayed in the Buddenbrooks, there are only three in Kita's novel. Biographical parallels to the real Saito / Kita family can be found in Mokichi Saito's The Bug Diary . Many memories of Morio Kita's father are recorded in the volume of essays.

In 1959, Kita traveled to Germany as a ship doctor. He will publish the travel experiences themselves in the stories Doctor Mambō Kōkaiki (Doctor Mambo at Sea). During his trip, Kita also visited Lübeck, the city of Thomas Mann's birth. The original title of his novel was Kamioke no hitobito ; he was preprinted in 1962 in the literary magazine Shinchō . The writer and political activist Yukio Mishima called Das Haus Nire a masterpiece.

Together with Osamu Tezuka , he also worked on the script of the anime series Sindbad (1975), which was also broadcast in Germany. In 1983, an anime film adaptation called Doctor Mambō vs. Kaitō Jibako: Uchū yori Ai o Komete ( ど く と る マ ン ボ ウ VS 怪 盗 ジ バ コ ・ 宇宙 よ り 愛 を こ め て ) based on the Doctor Mambō series.

In 1998 he finished a largely critically acclaimed four-volume biography of his famous father. He was awarded the Osaragi Jirō Prize for this.

In 2006, his older brother, the psychiatrist and essayist Shigeta Saitō , died of heart failure .

Awards

• 1960 Akutagawa Prize ( Yoru to Kiri no Sumi de )
• 1964 Mainichi Culture Prize ( Nireke no Hitobito )
• 1986 Nihon Bugaku Taishō ( Kagayakeru Aoki Sora no Shita de )
• 1998 Osaragi Jirō Prize ( His Mokichi, Sōnen Mokichi, Hōkō Mokichi, Mochiki Bannen )

Works

Novels

• Yūrei. ( 幽 霊 ; 1954)
• Dokutoru Mambō Kōkaiki (Sen'i toshite no Keiken o humorous ni Egaita Zuihitsu). ( ど く と る マ ン ボ ウ 航海 記 （船 医 と し て の 経 験 を ユ ー モ モ ラ ス に 描 い た 随筆 ; 1960)
• Yoru to Kiri no Sumi de. ( 夜と霧の隅で , dt "In an angle at night and fog", 1960;. In darkness and fog cass verlag, wages 2013. ISBN 978-3-9809022-9-8 . ; Novel about a mental hospital in Nazi Germany and the doctors' struggle to save the patients, against the background of the Night and Fog Decree )
• Nire-ke no Hitobito. ( 楡 家 の 人 々 ; 1963; Eng . "The people of the Nire family / of the Nire house"); The house of Nire - the decline of a family . be.bra verlag , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86124-909-2 .
• Shiroki Taoyaka na Mine. ( 白 き た お や か な 峰 , Ger. "Graceful White Summit", 1966)
• Dokutoru Mambō konchuki. ( 北 杜夫, ど く と る マ ン ボ ウ 昆虫 記 , German "Doktor Mambos insect diary", 1966)
• Sabishii Ō-sama. ( さ び し い 王 様 , Eng. "The lonely king", 1969)
• Sabishii Kojiki. ( さ び し い 乞食 , Eng . "The lonely beggar", 1974)
• Kodama ("The Echo", 1975)
• Sabishii Himegimi. ( さ び し い 姫 君 , Eng. "The lonely princess", 1977)
• Yasashii Nyūbō wa Satsujinki. ( 優 し い 女 房 は 殺人 鬼 , Eng. "The gentle wife is a devilish murderer", 1986)
• Dai-Nippon Teikoku Superman. ( 大 日本 帝国 ス ー パ ー マ ン , German "Superman of the Empire of Greater Japan", 1987)
• Kagayakeru Aoki Sora no Shitade. ( 輝 け る 碧 き 空 の 下 で , Ger. "Under a blazing blue sky", 1988)

Short stories

• The Empty Field. (The Japanese title of this 1973 short fiction story is currently unknown)
• Ha-ari no iru oka. (Eng. "Winged ants on a slope", 1956); The Great Japan Reader . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-442-09886-6 .

fairy tale

• Funanori Kupukupu no Bōken. (The Adventures of Kupukupu the Sailor, 1962)
• The Bag of Fire and Other Plays. (Title of the English edition published in 1964; the title of the Japanese edition is currently unknown)

Mokichi Saitō biography

• His mokichi. ( 青年 茂 吉 , German "Mokichi's youth", 1991)
• Sons Mokichi. ( 壮年 茂 吉 , German "Mokichi in the prime of his life", 1993)
• Hoko Mokichi. ( 茂 吉 彷徨 , German "Mokichi, walking around", 1996)
• Mochiki wards. ( 茂 吉 晩 年 , Ger. "Mokichi's late years", 1998)

Translations

• Donald Keene: Ghosts. (Yūrei), Kodansha Amerika, New York 1991, ISBN 4-7700-1743-X .
• Ralph F. McCarthy: Doctor Mambo at Sea. Kodansha 1987, ISBN 4-06-186029-1 .

Scripts

1962: Arabian naito: Shindobaddo no bōken

Web links

• Literature by and about Morio Kita in the catalog of the German National Library
• Morio Kita in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• interview
• Review of "Das Haus Nire"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jürgen Berndt: BI-Lexicon East Asian literatures. Leipzig 1987, DNB 870573543 , p. 188.
2. ↑ Novelist-essayist Morio Kita dies at 84. ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: houseofjapan.com , October 26, 2011. 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} 北 杜夫 . Shinchōsha , 2007, accessed August 12, 2009 (Japanese). 
4. ↑ Miho: January 25, 2004. Matsumoto City in Nagano Prefecture. Matsumoto High School. (No longer available online.) In: Nature Net. Aoki Concept Designing, archived from the original on December 22, 2004 ; accessed on August 30, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Modern Japanese Fiction. on: japanorama.com
6. ↑ Kenzo Miyashita: The influence of Thomas Mann on some novels by Kita Morio. In: 宇 都 宮 土 学 教養 部 研究 報告 第 １ 部 , 1984, pp. 33–42 (English)
7. ^ Sandra L. Beckett: Crossover Fiction. Global and Historical Perspectives. Routledge, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-415-98033-3 , p. 94.
8. ^ Kita Morio Biography. In: Dictionary of Literary Biography. BookRags, accessed August 30, 2009 . 
9. ↑ Volker Hansen: Thomas Mann. Metzler, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-476-10211-4 , p. 146.
10. ↑ See also: Tsuji Kunio: Thomas Mann. Iwanami 1994, ISBN 4-00-260171-4 (TB No. 171 from the Dōjidai Library series), dedicated to Kita Morio (Japanese)
11. ↑ See also: Kita Morio, Tsuji Kunio: Wakaki hi to bungaku to: taidan. Conversations ( 若 き 日 と 文学 と - 対 談 ), Chūkōbunko 1974, ISBN 4-12-200109-9 (Japanese)
12. ↑ Kindler's literary dictionary
13. ^ Modern Japanese Authors: Kita Morio. ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: jlit.net 
14. ↑ 25th Osaragi Jirō Prize (December 18, 1998). ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: jlit.net 
15. ↑ The Japanese Literature Home Page ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
16. ^ The Empty Field. In: John L. Apostolou, Martin H. Greenberg: The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories. at: fantasticfiction.co.uk