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Kyōka Izumi
Japanese writer (1873–1939)
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Born | Kyōtarō Izumi (1873-11-04)4 November 1873 Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan |
Died | 7 September 1939(1939-09-07) (aged 65) Tokyo, Japan |
Occupation | Writer |
Genre | Novels, short stories, plays, haiku |
Kyōtarō Izumi (泉 鏡太郎, Izumi Kyōtarō, 4 November 1873 – 7 September 1939), known by his pen nameIzumi Kyōka (泉 鏡花, Izumi Kyōka), was a Japanese novelist, writer and kabuki playwright who was active during the prewar period.
Kyōka's writing differed greatly from that of the naturalist writers who dominated the literary scene at the time. Many of Kyōka's works are surrealist critiques of society.[1] He is best known for a characteristic brand of Romanticism preferring tales of the supernatural heavily influenced by works of the earlier Edo period in Japanese arts and letters, which he tempered with his own personal vision of aesthetics and art in the modern age.
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