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

dōjinshi , also Romanization of Japanese, 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 exi ...

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

Waseda University Waseda University (Japanese: ), abbreviated as or , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the Tōkyō Professional School by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the fifth Prime Minister of Japan, prime ministe ...

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 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and ...

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 Burials at Tama Cemetery {{japan-writer-stub Japanese communists