Futabatei Shimei

Hasegawa Tatsunosuke, known as Futabatei Shimei, was born in 1864 in Edo, the son of a samurai of modest rank from the Owari domain. He studied Russian at the Tokyo School of Foreign Languages, which he left without a diploma. Encouraged by the critic Tsubouchi Shōyō, he translated two stories by Ivan Turgenev in 1888, then stopped writing fiction for years. He joined the daily Asahi in 1904, was sent to Saint Petersburg in 1908 and died at sea, in the Bay of Bengal, on 10 May 1909, on the way home.

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• NovelJapan's First Modern Novel: Ukigumo浮雲Futabatei Shimei · 1887Literature