Yumeno Kyūsaku

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In this Japanese name, the surname is Yumeno, Sugiyama.
Yumeno Kyūsaku
Fukuoka, Japan
Died11 March 1936(1936-03-11) (aged 47)
Tokyo, Japan
Pen nameKaijaku Ranpei
Kagutsuchi Midori
Kakumi Dontarō
Unsui (雲水)
Hōen (萠円)
OccupationJournalist, detective literature writer
GenreDetective stories, science fiction, horror
Literary movementRomanticism, surrealism
Notable worksDogra Magra [ru; zh; ja]
RelativesSugiyama Shigemaru (father)
Sugiyama Tatsumaru (son)

Yumeno Kyūsaku (夢野 久作, 4 January 1889 – 11 March 1936) was the

detective novels and is known for his avant-gardism and his surrealistic, wildly imaginative and fantastic,[1] even bizarre narratives
. His eldest son, Sugiyama Tatsumaru, was known as the Green Father of India for spending billions of yen on reforestation.

Early life

Yumeno was born in

Shuyukan he attended the Literature Department at Keio University, but dropped out[1] on orders from his father, and returned home to take care of the family farm. In 1926 he decided to become a Buddhist priest, but after a couple of years in the monastery, he returned home again as Sugiyama Yasumichi. By this time, he had developed a strong interest in the traditional Japanese drama form of Noh, with its genre of ghost stories and supernatural events. He found employment as a freelance reporter for the Kyushu Nippō newspaper (which later became the Nishinippon Shimbun
), while writing works of fiction on the side.

Literary career

Kyūsaku's first success was a nursery tale Shiraga Kozō (White Hair Boy, 1922), which was largely ignored by the public. It was not until his first novella, Ayakashi no Tsuzumi (The Spirit Drum, 1924) in the literary magazine Shin-Seinen, that his name became known.

His subsequent works include Binzume jigoku (Hell in the Bottles, 1928), Kori no hate (End of the Ice, 1933), and his most significant novel Dogura Magura (Dogra Magra [ru; zh; ja], 1935), which is considered a precursor of modern Japanese science fiction[2] and was adapted for a 1988 movie directed by Toshio Matsumoto and starring Shijaku Katsura II, Hideo Murota, and Yōji Matsuda.[3]

Dogra Magra exemplifies modern Japanese

Freudian psychoanalysis and, through Yumeno's contacts there, provides considerable historical insight into the development of the study of psychoanalysis at Kyushu Imperial University.[2]

Kyūsaku died of a

cerebral hemorrhage
in 1936 while talking with a visitor at home.

Works in translation

English translation

Short stories

  • "Love After Death" (original title: Shigo no Koi) (Modanizumu: Modernist Fiction from Japan, 1913-1938,
    University of Hawaii Press
    , 2008)
  • "Hell in a Bottle" (original title: Binzume Jigoku) (Three-Dimensional Reading: Stories of Time and Space in Japanese Modernist Fiction, 1911-1932, University of Hawaii Press, 2013)
  • "Hell in Bottles" (original title: Binzume Jigoku) (The Nashville Review, Volume 25, Vanderbilt University, 2018)
  • "Building" (original title: Birudingu) (The Literary Review, Volume 60 No 2: Physics, Farleigh Dickinson University, 2017)

Novel

  • "The Spirit Drum" (original title: Ayakashi no Tsuzumi) (Arigatai Books, 2019, translated by J.D. Wisgo)
  • "Kaimu: A Collection of Disturbing Dreams" (original title: Kaimu) (Arigatai Books, 2021, translated by J.D. Wisgo)

Essay

French translation

Novel

Spanish translation

Short stories

Polish translation

Short stories

  • "Piekło w butelkach" (original title: Binzume Jigoku) (Tajfuny, 2021, translated by Andrzej Świrkowski)

Novel

  • "Przeklęty bębenek" (original title: Ayakashi no tsuzumi) (Kirin, 2021, translated by Anna Grajny)

Russian translation

Novel

References

  1. ^ a b "Kyusaku Yumeno". Authors. JP: JLPP. Archived from the original on December 12, 2007. Retrieved 2009-03-11.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8166-4974-7
    .
  3. ^ "Dogura magura (1988)". IMDb. Retrieved 2009-03-11.

Further reading

External links
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