Nagayo Yoshirō

Nagayo Yoshirō (Japanese长 与 善 郎, born August 6 1888 in the prefecture of Tokyo, † October 29, 1961 ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

Nagayo worked as a writer for the literary magazine Shirakaba. He was primarily as a playwright and novelist known pieces like Kou to Ryuho (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 authored two travel reports from Manchuria - Shōnen Manshu tokuhon (少年 満 洲 読 本) and Manshu no kengaku (満 洲 の 見学) - and dropped Waga kokoro no henreki (わが 心 の 遍歴) before an autobiographical work. In the West ( " The bronze Christ "青銅 の 基督; 1923) was mainly Seido no Kirisutu known, a novel about the persecution of Christians in Japan in the 17th century, who was also presenting a film screenplay.

In 1959 Nagayo the Yomiuri Literary Prize in the category Reviews / biographies Waga kokoro no henreki.

Swell

  • Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press, 2002 ( Original title: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization, translated by Käthe Roth), ISBN 0-674-00770-0, p 685 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • Joshua A. Fogel: The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China, 1862-1945. Stanford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8047-2567-5, p 284 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • Author
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Novel, epic
  • Drama
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1888
  • Died in 1961
  • Man
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