Nagayo Yoshirō

Nagayo Yoshirō

Nagayo Yoshirō ( Japanese 長 與 善 郎 ; * August 6, 1888 in Tokyo Prefecture ; † October 29, 1961 ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

Nagayo worked as a writer for the literary magazine Shirakaba . He was best known as a playwright and novelist with plays such as Kōu to Ryūhō ( 項羽 と 劉邦 ; 1917) and Indara no ko ( 因陀羅 の 子 ; 1920) and the historical novel Takezawa-sensei to iu hito ( 竹 沢 先生 と 云ふ 人 ; 1925). He also wrote two travel reports from Manchuria - Shōnen Manshū tokuhon ( 少年 満 洲 読 本 ) and Manshū no kengaku ( 満 洲 の 見 学 ) - and presented an autobiographical work with Waga kokoro no henreki ( わ が 心 の 遍 歴 ). In the West, Seidō no Kirisutu ( 青銅 の 基督 , "The Bronze Christ"; 1923) was known, a novel about the persecution of Christians in Japan in the 17th century , which was also the template for a film script.

In 1959 Nagayo received the Yomiuri Literature Prize in the Critiques / Biographies category for Waga kokoro no henreki .

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• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 685 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• Joshua A. Fogel: The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China, 1862-1945 . Stanford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8047-2567-5 , pp. 284 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Nagayo is the family name, Yoshirō the first name.