was an experimental, modernist Japanese writer. Yokomitsu began publishing in

dōjinshi , also romanized as ', is the Japanese term for self-published print works, such as magazines, manga, and novels. Part of a wider category of '' doujin'' (self-published) works, ''doujinshi'' are often derivative of existing works and created ...

such as ''Machi'' ("Street") and ''Tō'' ("Tower") after entering

Waseda University , mottoeng = Independence of scholarship , established = 21 October 1882 , type = Private , endowment = , president = Aiji Tanaka , city = Shinjuku , state = Tokyo , country = Japan , students = 47,959 , undergrad = 39,382 , postgrad ...

in 1916. In 1923, he published ''Nichirin'' ("The Sun"), ''Hae'' ("A Fly") and more in the magazine ''Bungeishunjū'', which made his name popular. The following year he started the magazine ''Bungei-Jidai'' with

Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal a ...

and others. Yokomitsu and others involved in ''Bungei-Jidai'' were known collectively as the ''Shinkankakuha'', or the New Sensation School, with a particular interest in sensation and scientific objectivity.

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Synopsis of ''Shanghai'' (''Shanhai'')
at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project) 1898 births 1947 deaths Writers from Fukushima Prefecture 20th-century Japanese writers 20th-century Japanese male writers {{japan-writer-stub