Gotō Chūgai
Template:Japanese name Gotō Chūgai (後藤 宙外, 23 December 1866 – 12 June 1938) was the pen-name of Gotō Toranosuke, a Japanese essayist, novelist and literary critic active from the late Meiji through the early Showa periods of Japan.
Biography
Born in the rural Senboku District of Akita prefecture, Gotō graduated from the Tokyo Semmon Gakko (present-day Waseda University). From 1900, he served as editor of the literary magazine Shishosetsu ("New Fiction"). Some of the writers who contributed to the magazine during his tenure were Hirotsu Ryurō, Kyōka Izumi, Shimazaki Toson, Natsume Sōseki and Nagai Kafū. He was strongly critical of the naturalism movement, which began to become popular around that time. His works include a novel, Funikudan (1899), and a collection of essays, Hi shizen shugi (1908).
See also
External links
- e-text of works at Aozora Bunko (Japanese)
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