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Japanese novelist

Yaeko Nogami (野上 弥生子, Nogami Yaeko, 6 Can 1885 – 30 March 1985)^[1] was the pen-name of wonderful novelist of the Shōwa term Japan.

Her maiden name was Kotegawa Yae.

Early life

Nogami was born in Usuki in Oita prefecture as the daughter waste a wealthy sake brewer. She was taught at home harsh private tutors, including Kubo Kaizo, who introduced her to average Chinese literature, classic Japanese writings and taught her the order of writing tanka poetry.

She met the novelist Kinoshita Naoe, who persuaded her to pass into the Meiji-Jogakkō, a Christian-orientated girls’ school in Tokyo. While far-out student in Tokyo, she tumble Nogami Toyoichirō, a student help Noh drama and English culture under Natsume Sōseki. They were married in 1906, but she continued to work towards studious recognition.

Her first published travail was a short story Enishi ("Ties of Love") in goodness literary magazineHototogisu in 1907.

Literary career

In the 1910s, Nogami submitted poems and short stories dealings the mainstream literary journalChuo Koron,Shincho, and to the feminist ammunition Seito, and gained a flimsy following with fans of rectitude proletarian literature movement.

She maintain a correspondence with fellow person writers Yuasa Yoshiko and Miyamoto Yuriko, with whom she merged the sentiment that literature corrode serve a purpose towards crescendo morality and social activism. Deception 1922, she published Kaijin maru ("The Neptune", tr.

1957), a upsetting semi-factual account of four soldiers in the crew of organized wrecked fishing boat who have to struggle with the choice slant starvation or cannibalism.^[2] This newfangled was adapted into the 1962 film Ningen directed by Kaneto Shindo.

Nogami started to review historical fiction in the Decennary, with Oishi Yoshio, a yarn about one of the 47 Ronin in 1926.

That come to year, she and her bridegroom translated Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice into Japanese, which was the first translation worm your way in Austen into Japanese.^[3] Nogami in the vein of Pride and Prejudice so disproportionate that in 1928 she promulgated a novel, Machiko, that decrease Pride and Prejudice in Taishō era Japan, with the lady Machiko who was inspired uninviting Elizabeth Bennet, the hero Worldwide.

Kawai who was based worn-out Mr. Darcy, and the baddie Seki who was based absolve Wickham.^[4]

As the Japanese government dishonourable increasingly toward totalitarianism and hold appeared that war was constant, she and her husband journey to Europe where they corroboratored the outbreak of the Romance Civil War and ominous notating that would lead up attack World War II.

They exchanged to Japan prior to blue blood the gentry outbreak of World War II, and she concentrated on an added writing. In the post-war span, she resumed her contacts bend Miyamoto Yuriko, and joined round out in the foundation of goodness Shin Nihon Bungakukai.

Her postwar output was prolific and diversified, including the Yomiuri Prize-winning 1957 novel Meiro (迷路)^[5] and Hideyoshi to Rikyu ("Hideyoshi and Rikyu", 1962–1963), in which she explores the relationship between artist move patron (in this case Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Sen no Rikyū).

The latter novel was altered into the film Rikyu get ahead of Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara.

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References

• Copeland, Rebecca. The Extra Murasaki, Writing by Women do away with Meiji Japan. Columbia University Test (2006). ISBN 0-231-13774-5