Gotō Toranosuke (23 December 1866 – 12 June 1938), known by his
pen name
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, was a Japanese writer and
literary critic
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active from the late
Meiji
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through the early
Shōwa period
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s of Japan.
Biography
Born in the rural
Senboku District of
Akita prefecture
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(in what is now the city of
Daisen), Gotō graduated from the Tokyo Semmon Gakko (present-day
Waseda University
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). From 1900, he served as editor of the
literary magazine ''Shinshōsetsu'' ("New Fiction"). Some of the writers who contributed to the magazine during his tenure were members of the ''
Ken'yūsha'' literary society, including
Hirotsu Ryurō,
Kyōka Izumi
, known by his pen name , 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 ...
,
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,
Natsume Sōseki
, born , was a Japanese novelist. He is best known for his novels ''Kokoro'', ''Botchan'', ''I Am a Cat'', ''Kusamakura (novel), Kusamakura'' and his unfinished work ''Light and Darkness (novel), Light and Darkness''. He was also a scholar of Br ...
and
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. He was strongly critical of the
naturalism movement, which began to become popular around that time. His works include a novella, ''Funikudan'' (1899), and a collection of essays, ''Hi shizen shugi'' (1908).
See also
*
Japanese literature
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*
List of Japanese authors
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References
External links
e-text of worksat
Aozora Bunko
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(Japanese)
1866 births
1938 deaths
Japanese essayists
19th-century Japanese novelists
20th-century Japanese novelists
People from Daisen, Akita
Writers from Akita Prefecture
Waseda University alumni
19th-century essayists
20th-century essayists
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