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Shūsei Tokuda
Japanese writer
Shūsei Tokuda (徳田秋声, Tokuda Shūsei, 1 February 1872 – 18 November 1943, real name Sueo Tokuda) was a Japanese writer.
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Shūsei Tokuda | |
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Born | (1872-02-01)1 February 1872 Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan |
Died | 18 November 1943(1943-11-18) (aged 71) Tokyo, Japan |
Occupation | Writer |
Literary movement | Naturalism |
Tokuda was born in Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture.[1] Coming from a family of the former feudal nobility, Tokuda began his literary life as a follower of the writer Ozaki Kōyō, who was four years his senior and had already established himself as a literary man in the late 1880s. Their relationship wasn't to last long, though, with Kōyō dying in 1903, after which Tokuda began to move from Kōyō's style of romanticism into a mixture of naturalism and the confessional known as "Shizen-shugi", an example of which is his 1908 novel Arajotai (新世帯), which dealt with the frustrations of a young working-class couple.
After the publication of Ashiato (足迹) in 1910, Tokuda would release his most autobiographical work, Kabi (黴), in 1911, a classic example of the Japanese genre known as the "I-novel". He followed with the novel Rough Living (Arakure, あらくれ) in 1915.
After the death of his wife in 1926, Tokuda began a series of relationships with younger women, which would inspire his later works, especially his best-known, Kasō jinbutsu (仮装人物), released from 1935 to 1938, as well as the unfinished Shukuzu (縮図) from 1941.
A number of Tokuda's works were adapted into films in Japan.[2] A monument honoring Tokuda was erected near the summit of Mount Utatsu in 1947. The monument features writing authored by poet Murō Saisei and was designed by architect Yoshirō Taniguchi.
- 1910: Ashiato
- 1911: Kabi
- 1915: Rough Living (Arakure)
- 1933: The Town's Dance Hall (Machi no odoriba)
- 1935: Order of the White Paulownia (Kunshō)
- 1935–1938: Kasō jinbutsu
- 1941: Shukuzu (unfinished)
- Tokuda, Shusei (2001). Rough Living. Translated by Torrance, Richard. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0824823877.
- Rimer, J. Thomas, ed. (2005). "The Town's Dance Hall". The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: Volume 1: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945. Columbia University Press.
- Morris, Ivan, ed. (1962). "Order of the White Paulownia". Modern Japanese Stories: An Anthology. ISBN 0804833362.
- Torrance, Richard (1994). The Fiction of Tokuda Shusei, and the Emergence of Japan's New Middle Class. Washington University Press.
- 1953: Epitome (Shukuzu), director Kaneto Shindō
- 1957: Untamed (Arakure), director Mikio Naruse
- 1962: Stolen Pleasure (Tadare), director Yasuzō Masumura
- "徳田秋声 (Tokuda Shūsei)". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 13 September 2021.
- "徳田秋声 (Tokuda Shūsei)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 14 September 2021.
- Works by or about Shūsei Tokuda at Internet Archive
- Works by Shūsei Tokuda at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Shūsei Tokuda at Find a Grave
- Shūsei Tokuda at IMDb
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