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Hōgetsu Shimamura

Also recorded as Hogetsu Shimamura · Hougetsu Shimamura

Hōgetsu Shimamura

Portrait of Shimamura Hogetsu (島村抱月, 1871 – 1918)

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Born
1871 · Naka district.
Died
1918
Nationality
Japan
Occupation
literary critic · impresario · writer · playwright · poet · novelist
Education
Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō · University of Oxford · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Languages
Japanese

In this article

  1. 01Biography
  2. 02Writing and publications
  3. 03Notes, references and evidence

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