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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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    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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    to analyze the works of Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Mori Ōgai, Ueda Bin and Nagai Kafū. After graduating, he married Taka Hashimoto. The couple had three children:...
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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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  • the title of Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale, is a Japanese novel written by Nagai Kafu about the Tokyo hanamachi (geisha district) of Shimbashi in the early...
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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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  • attending college preparatory courses, he attended lectures by Mori Ōgai and Nagai Kafū. While still a student at Keio University in 1911, he made his literary...
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    including Soseki Natsume, Shiki Masaoka, Akiko Yosano, Yukio Mishima, Nagai Kafu, Hisashi Inoue and Koda Rohan. The area around Ichikawa Station and Motoyawata...
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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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    surrounding the revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin Bokuto Kitan, the novel by Nagai Kafu You're Under Arrest manga series Battle Kuma Oni. in Kachidoki Bridge...
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    Futabatei Shimei, Uchida Roan [ja], Morita Sōhei, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Nagai Kafū, and Kyōka Izumi. In 1907 Goyō won recognition for an ukiyo-e oil painting...
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  • Nada Inanda (born 1929) Nagai Kafu (December 4, 1879 – April 30, 1959) Nagai Tatsuo (May 20, 1904 – October 12, 1990) Nagai Michiko (born 1921) Nagata...
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  • Johnson in the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty Nagai Kafu, author Jordan Klepper (2001), comedian, The Daily Show Lisa Kron, 2015...
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    period, confessional diaries such as Higuchi Ichiyō's Ichiyō Nikki and Nagai Kafu's Danchōtei Nichijō have gained in importance. Nikki bungaku as a term...
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    including Hirotsu Ryurō, Kyōka Izumi, Shimazaki Toson, Natsume Sōseki and Nagai Kafū. He was strongly critical of the naturalism movement, which began to become...
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  • essay collection Mandanshū (漫談集); as a noun meaning "boyfriend," to Nagai Kafū's 1934 novel Hikage-no Hana (ひかげの花). Morphologically, kareshi (彼氏) is composed...
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    tenshi, 1955. Yasei no onna, 1955. Akutagawa Ryūnosuke no sekai, 1956. Nagai Kafū kenkyū, 1956. Bungakuteki kankaku, 1959. Ōchō bungaku no sekai, 1963....
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    Japanese style of naturalism. Although often compared to his contemporary, Nagai Kafū, Kosugi has been criticized for having two-dimensional characters who...
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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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  • stage, film actor, known for playing Judge Hardy (d. 1953) December 4 – Nagai Kafu, Japanese writer (d. 1959) December 5 – Clyde Cessna, American aviator...
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  • Southern Arabia (London, 1900 – completed posthumously by Mabel Bent) Nagai Kafu American Stories (being diaries of his travels through America, first...
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  • world in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. His biography of Nagai Kafu Waga Kafu ("My Kafu", 1969), was awarded the Yomiuri Prize. In 1981 he was awarded...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • ‘Ihara Saikaku’, ‘Mishima Yukio’, ‘Mori Ōgai’, ‘Murasaki Shikibu’, ‘Nagai Kafū’, ‘Natsume Sōseki’, ‘Shiga Naoya’, ‘Taiheiki’, ‘Takizawa Bakin’, and ‘Tanizaki...
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    modern prose" of such "well-known Japanese writers as Kawabata Yasunari, Nagai Kafu, and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki". However, "scholars in the visual and fine arts...
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  • been assigned to entertain him on a visit to her town. The famous writer Nagai Kafū was his half-brother. Takami was interested in literature from youth,...
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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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