was a Japanese author and academic.

Biography

Uchida was born in

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to a family of sake brewers whose business later went bankrupt. His real name is Eizo Uchida (内田榮造 ''Uchida Eizō''). He became a pupil of

Natsume Sōseki , born , was a Japanese novelist. He is best known for his novels ''Kokoro'', ''Botchan'', ''I Am a Cat'', ''Kusamakura (novel), Kusamakura'' and his unfinished work ''Light and Darkness (novel), Light and Darkness''. He was also a scholar of Br ...

in 1911. He graduated from

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(Tokyo Imperial University) in 1914. He became professor of German at

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in 1916. He later taught at

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(Tokyo). He is the main subject of

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's last film, . His novel, is the inspiration for the film, '' Zigeunerweisen''. He is the author of more than fifteen volumes of writings including , and . In Japan he is well known as a passionate

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and he made some works on railway travel.See Ahō ressha(Japanese). Though a great literary figure in Japan, he currently only has one book translated into English: ''Realm of the Dead'' (冥途 ''Meido''). That volume also includes the collection ''Triumphal Entry into Ryojun'' (). "Small Round Things", a translated excerpt from another collection, ''Jottings from the Goblins' Garden'' (), appeared in the JAL inflight magazine ''Skyward'' in January 2006. He had two sons and three daughters.

Bibliography

Novels

* (''Realm of the Dead'') (1922) * (1934) *''Journal de Tokyo'' (1938) ''cité dans "1Q84" de H.Murakami, livre 3, chapitre 3, note 1.'' * (The first appearance of the ''Tokyo Nikki'' in .) (1939) * (The first appearance of the ''Nanzanju'' in .) (1939) * (The first appearance of the ''Yanagi Kenkō no Shōkan'' in .) (1941) * (1950) * (The first appearance of the ''Sarasāte no ban'' in .) (1951) * (1952–1956)

Essays

* (1933) * (1933) * (1934) * (1941) * (1946) * (1951) * (1957) * (1971)

Children's literature

* (1934)

Diary

* (1935) * (1937) * (1955)

Haiku

* (1934) * (1943)

Film

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, 1939), starring Roppa Furukawa. * (Toho, 1980), directed by

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, starring

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, original novel ''Sarasāte no ban''. * (

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, 1993), directed by

, starring Tatsuo Matsumura.

Notes

External links

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Hyakken Uchida's graveHyakken Uchida
at J'Lit Books from Japan

at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project) {{DEFAULTSORT:Uchida, Hyakken 1889 births 1971 deaths People from Okayama University of Tokyo alumni Academic staff of Hosei University Japanese haiku poets 20th-century Japanese poets