Izumi Kyōka

Izumi Kyōtarō was born on 4 November 1873 in Kanazawa, into a family of craftsmen; his father chiselled metal ornaments. Having lost his mother in childhood, he kept a sense of loss that marked all his work, according to the National Diet Library. He went up to Tokyo in 1890 to become the disciple of the novelist who then dominated letters, but did not dare to present himself; received the following year, he lived in his master's house until 1894, and the master corrected his manuscripts word by word. He wrote fantastic tales, apart from the naturalists, and died in Tokyo on 7 September 1939.

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• NarrativeA Song by Lantern Light歌行燈Izumi Kyōka · 1910Literature