Saitō Ryokuu

Ryokuu Saitō

Saitō Ryokuu ( Japanese 斎 藤 緑 雨 , real name: Saitō Masaru ( 斎 藤 賢 ); born December 31, 1867 in Kobe (today: Suzuka ) in Mie Prefecture ; † April 13, 1904 ) was a Japanese literary critic, writer and essayist .

Saitō attended the Meiji Hōritsu High School (later: Meiji University ) in Tokyo , which he left without a degree to become a writer and from 1884 to learn the writing trade with Robun Kanagaki . He began his literary career as a literary critic before becoming known for satirical and parodic novels such as Abura jigiku ( 油 地獄 , 1891). A collection of his essays appeared as early as 1889 under the title Shosetsu hasshū ( 小説 八 宗 ). He died of tuberculosis in 1904 at the age of 36 after publishing his own obituary in newspapers. The writer Tengai Kosugi is one of his students .

literature

• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 809 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• Toson Shimazaki: "Chikuma River sketches" , University of Hawaii Press, 1991, ISBN 9780824813147 , p. 127
• Chieko Mulhern: "Kōda Rohan, 1867-1947: Criticism and Interpretation" , Ardent Media, 1977, ISBN 9780805762723 , p. 165

Web links

• Digital copies of his works at Aozora Bunko (Japanese)

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