Hyakken Uchida

Hyakken Uchida
Born (1889-05-29)May 29, 1889
Okayama, Okayama, Japan
Died April 20, 1971(1971-04-20) (aged 81)
Tokyo, Japan
Occupation Writer and academic
Nationality Japan

Hyakken Uchida (内田 百間[1] Uchida Hyakken, May 29, 1889 – April 20, 1971) was a Japanese author and academic. He was born in Okayama, to a family of sake brewers whose business later went bankrupt. His real name is Eizo Uchida (内田 榮造 Uchida Eizō). He became a pupil of Natsume Sōseki in 1911. He graduated from Tokyo University (Tokyo Imperial University) in 1914. He became professor of German at Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1916. He later taught at Hosei University (Tokyo). He is the main subject of Akira Kurosawa's last film, Madadayo (まあだだよ). His novel, Disk of Sarasate (サラサーテの盤 Sarasāte no ban) is the inspiration for the film, Zigeunerweisen. He is the author of more than fifteen volumes of writings including I am a Cat: The Fake Version (贋作吾輩は猫である Gansaku wagahai ha neko de aru), and Gates Close at Dusk (日没閉門 Nichibotsu heimon). In Japan he is well known as a passionate railfan and he made some works on railway travel.[2] Though a great literary figure in Japan, he currently only has one book translated into English: Realm of the Dead (冥途 Meido). That volume also includes the collection Triumphal Entry into Ryojun (Ryojun Nyujōshiki (旅順入城式)). A translated excerpt from another collection, Hyakkien Zuihitsu (百鬼園随筆)[Jottings from the Goblins' Garden], appeared in the JAL inflight magazine Skyward, January 2006: "Small Round Things." He had two sons and three daughters.

Bibliography

Novels

Essay

Children's literature

Diary

Haiku

Film

Notes

  1. ↑ His name Hyakken is normally written 百閒, the latter character (which cannot be displayed by some computers) being a variant of 間 with 月 rather than 日 inside 門.
  2. ↑ See Ahō ressha(Japanese).

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