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    Kafū Nagai (永井 荷風, Nagai Kafū, 3 December 1879 – 30 April 1959) was a Japanese writer, editor and translator. His works like Geisha in Rivalry and A Strange...
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  • group, LIGHTSUM Jordan Nagai (born 2000), American former voice actor Jun Nagai (born 1944), Japanese middle-distance runner Kafū Nagai, Japanese novelist...
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    early 20th century, followed by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Kafū Nagai and, more recently, Haruki Murakami and Kenji Nakagami. Japan has two...
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    mental states. Neo-romanticism came out of anti-naturalism and was led by Kafū Nagai, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Kōtarō Takamura, Hakushū Kitahara and others in...
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  • a 1966 Japanese film directed by Masashige Narusawa. It is based on Kafū Nagai`s novel Yojōhan Fusumano Shitabari. Fukazawa Shino is a Prostitute in the...
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    (Shinshaku) of the 1973 pink film The World of Geisha based on the novel by Kafū Nagai. The film was directed by former AV actress Kyōko Aizome and also featured...
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    and "A Song by Lantern Light" (歌行燈, Uta Andon) were published in 1910. Kafū Nagai praised "Samisen Canal." At the same time, the first five volumes of Kyōka's...
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    interesting as his haibun. Yayū has been described as a master of haibun, and Nagai Kafū 永井荷風 called Yayū's haibun a model of Japanese prose. "Uzuragoromo" (鶉衣) :...
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    non-translation work, "Kafū the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafū, 1879–1959" (Stanford University Press, 1965), was a biography of Kafū Nagai, the Japanese...
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    Metropolitan Museum of Art / Viking Studio Book. ISBN 978-0670372621. Kafū, Nagai, Kyoko Selden, and Alisa Freedman. "Ukiyo-e Landscapes and Edo Scenic...
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  • a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Shirō Toyoda. It is based on Kafū Nagai's 1937 short story A Strange Tale from East of the River. In the Tamanoi...
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    home, to be replaced by a German military mission. The Japanese writer Kafū Nagai wrote after visiting France: "No matter how much I wanted to sing Western...
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  • served as Vice-Governor of Tome Prefecture. His imina is Norimitsu. Writer Kafū Nagai was his grandson. Scholar Natsue Washizu, who is also a singer and actress...
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  • Hutchison, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1949) 1879 – Kafū Nagai, Japanese author and playwright (d. 1959) 1879 – Donald Matheson Sutherland...
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    Kyōsuke KINDAICHI – Japanese linguist KUBOTA Utsubo – Japanese lyric poet Kafū NAGAI – Japanese writer, playwright, essayist, and diarist NAKAHAMA Manjirō...
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  • (1929–1991) – playwright and film director; resided in Staten Island Kafū Nagai (born Nagai Sōkichi, 1879–1959) – Japanese author; wrote about his brief residence...
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    by Shōhei Imamura. In July 1972, as a magazine editor, he published Kafū Nagai's Taishō era (1912-26) erotic short story "Yojōhan fusuma no shitabari"...
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  • Japan Art Academy Haruo Sato, Member of Japan Art Academy (Literature) Kafū Nagai, Member of Japan Art Academy, Order of Culture (Prof.) Shinobu Orikuchi...
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  • list included the works of Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Kyōka Izumi, Kafū Nagai, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, and especially Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, whose sado-masochistic...
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    Japanese Association of America Futabatei Shimei: author, translator Kafū Nagai: author Christian Polak: author Kim Su-yeong: poet Takashi Hiraide: poet...
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  • French writer, painter and guitarist Kafū Nagai (永井荷風, 1879–1959), Japanese author and playwright Takashi Nagai (永井隆, 1908–1951), Japanese Catholic physician...
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  • (born 1948, Iran/US, nf) Kafū Nagai (永井荷風, 1879–1959, Japan, f/nf/d) Michiko Nagai (永井路子, 1925–2023, Japan, f) Tatsuo Nagai (永井龍男, 1904–1990, Japan, f/nf)...
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  • censorship and state-imposed morality. Kumashiro's screenplay was based on Kafū Nagai's Yojohan Fusuma No Shitabari, one of several erotic novels the author...
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    Higashi Mukōjima) was a well-known aosen district; it features in some of Kafū Nagai's short stories. The term 'akasen' is often compared directly with the...
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    established by student and author Mantarō Kubota and others with help from Kafū Nagai in 1910. The magazine is published monthly. Scott J. Miller (1 July 2009)...
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  • Town" by Fumiko Hayashi "Fireworks" by Yukio Mishima "Azuma Bridge" by Kafū Nagai "An Unclaimed Body" by Michiko Ikeda "From Behind the Study Door" by Natsume...
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    Gathering of Pan) literary circle, through which he became acquainted with Kafū Nagai, Rokuzan Ogiwara, Kaoru Osanai, Kōtarō Takamura, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki,...
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    period. Her great-grandfather Washizu Yōshō was the great uncle of writer Kafū Nagai and the brother of scholar Washizu Kidō. At the age of three, Washizu...
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  • no Ue no Kumo (2009–2011) – Yamamoto Gonbei Wagaya no Rekishi (2010) – Kafū Nagai AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (2012–present) - Mineaki Kai Yasuragi no Sato...
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    World War II, Toyoda adapted the works of writers like Yasunari Kawabata, Kafū Nagai, Naoya Shiga, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki and Masuji Ibuse for his films. Distinguished...
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