Ishibashi's Thoughts - Ishibashi Shian

Japanese: 石橋思案 - いしばし・しあん

Year of death: January 28, 1927
Year of birth: 6/2/1867 (7/3/1867)
A novelist from the Meiji period. His real name was Sukesaburo. His pen names were Amaka Itshi, Jiritei, and Hifumi. He was born in Yokohama. He was the eldest son of Masakata, an English scholar who became a chamberlain to Emperor Meiji. His grandfather was Ishibashi Sukezaemon, a Nagasaki interpreter. He studied at Gakushuin and Shinbungakusha before moving on to the Faculty of Law and then the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo, before dropping out. In 1885, he founded the Kenyusha company with Ozaki Koyo and others, and published his debut work, Akusakura Yuri Noyoarashi, in Garakuta Bunko. He is known for works such as Otomegokoro and Kyokanoko, published in the same year, but his style was strongly influenced by comedy. He worked for the Isami Shimbun Company in 1893, and published Chukyo Shimbun in 1897, Dandan Chinbun in 1909, and Chuo Shimbun in 1901, before moving to the Yomiuri Shimbun as head of the social affairs department. He then joined Hakubunkan, where he edited Bungei Club until he left the company in 1916. His grave is in Tennoji Temple in Yanaka. <References> "Sen'yusha Bungakushu" (Meiji Literature Collection, Volume 22)

(Junko Saeki)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：昭和2.1.28(1927)
生年：慶応3.6.2(1867.7.3)
明治時代の小説家。本名助三郎。別号を雨香逸史,自劣亭,一二三子。横浜生まれ。明治天皇の侍従となった英学者政方の長男。祖父は長崎の通詞石橋助左衛門。学習院,進文学舎を経て東大法学部,のち文学部に進み中退。明治18(1885)年尾崎紅葉らと硯友社をおこし,『我楽多文庫』に処女作「仇桜遊里廼夜嵐」を発表。同22年の「乙女心」「京鹿子」などで知られるが,戯作臭の濃い作風であった。明治26年いさみ新聞社に勤め,30年『中京新聞』,32年『団々珍聞』,34年『中央新聞』から転じて読売新聞社で社会部長となったのち,博文館に入社,大正5(1916)年の退社まで『文芸倶楽部』を編集。墓所は谷中天王寺。<参考文献>『硯友社文学集』(明治文学全集22巻)

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