Izumi Kyōka

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1873-11-04

Deathday 1939-09-07 (65 years old)

Place of Birth Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As Kyōka Izumi, Kyoka Izumi, Kyouka Izumi, Kyohka Izumi, 泉 鏡花

Izumi Kyōka

Biography

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

Known For

Writer

2005
Demon Pond

as Theatre Play

1995
1992
Gekashitsu

as Original Story

1986
Blue Lake Girl

as Original Story

1981
Kagero-za

as Novel

1979
Demon Pond

as Theatre Play

1979
Grass Labyrinth

as Original Story

1979
Demon Pond

as Story

1962
1961
1960
1959
Elegy of a Geisha

as Original Story

1958
1957
The Temptress and the Monk

as Original Story

1956
滝の白糸

as Novel

1956
Bridge of Japan

as Original Story

1946
1943
The Song Lantern

as Original Story

1942
Onna keizu

as Novel

1941
White Heron

as Novel

1933