Writing

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Man

4 Nov 1873

Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

Izumi Kyōka

Izumi Kyōka (泉 鏡花 Izumi Kyōka, 4 November 1873 – 7 September 1939), real name Izumi Kyōtarō (泉 鏡太郎 Izumi Kyōtarō), is the pen name of a Japanese author of novels, short stories, and kabuki plays who was active during the prewar period. Kyōka's writing differed greatly from that of the naturalist writers who dominated the literary scene at the time. Many of Kyōka's works are surrealist critiques of society. He is best known for a characteristic brand of Romanticism preferring tales of the supernatural heavily influenced by works of the earlier Edo period in Japanese arts and letters, which he tempered with his own personal vision of aesthetics and art in the modern age. -- Wikipedia

Grass Labyrinth

1 January 1979

Kagero-za

21 August 1981

Demon Pond

20 October 1979

Private Collections

27 June 1979

The Water Magician

1 June 1933

The Song Lantern

11 February 1943

Demon Pond

25 May 2005

Blue Lake Girl

4 November 1986

Bridge of Japan

1 October 1956

The Snowy Heron

29 November 1958