Riichi Yokomitsu
Riichi Yokomitsu (横光 利一, Yokomitsu Riichi) was an experimental, modernist Japanese writer. Yokomitsu began publishing in dōjinshi such as Machi ("Street") and Tō ("Tower") after entering Waseda University in 1916. In 1923, he published Nichirin ("The Sun"), Hae ("A Fly") and more in the magazine Bungeishunjū, which made his name popular.
Riichi Yokomitsu
Japanese book "Showa Literature Series: Vol.1 (November 1952 issue)" published by Kadokawa Shoten. · Public domain
- Name
- Riichi Yokomitsu
- Born
- 17 March 1898
- Birthplace
- Higashiyama Onsen, Fukushima, Japan
- Died
- 30 December 1947
- Education
- Waseda University
- Occupation
- Novelist, short-story writer
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
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Riichi Yokomitsu (横光 利一, Yokomitsu Riichi) was an experimental, modernist Japanese writer. Yokomitsu began publishing in dōjinshi such as Machi ("Street") and Tō ("Tower") after entering Waseda University in 1916. In 1923, he published Nichirin ("The Sun"), Hae ("A Fly") and more in the magazine Bungeishunjū, which made his name popular.
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The following year he started the magazine Bungei-Jidai with Yasunari Kawabata and others. Yokomitsu and others involved in Bungei-Jidai were known collectively as the Shinkankakuha, or the New Sensation School, with a particular interest in sensation and scientific objectivity.
横光利一
『 アサヒグラフ 』 1948年2月4日号
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• Name — Riichi Yokomitsu • Born — 17 March 1898 • Birthplace — Higashiyama Onsen, Fukushima, Japan • Died — 30 December 1947 • Education — Waseda University • Occupation — Novelist, short-story writer • Genre — Fiction • Notable Works — * The Sun (日輪, Nichirin, 1923) • The Fly (蠅, Hae, 1923) • Spring Riding in a Carriage (春は馬車に乗って, Haru wa Basha ni notte, 1926) • Machine (機械, Kikai, 1930) • Shanghai (上海, Shanhai, 1931) • Melancholy Travel (旅愁, Ryoshu, 1937–1946)
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1898
Riichi Yokomitsu born at Aizuwakamatsu.
1947
Riichi Yokomitsu died at Tokyo.
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- 1.Keene, Dennis. Yokomitsu Riichi: Modernist. Columbia University Press. 1980. 9780231049382.
- 2.Washburn, Dennis. Translating Mount Fuji: Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity. Columbia University Press. 147. 2007. 9780231138925.
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