Kannon Rock

…Afterwards, he left Koyo and others and became closer to the Literary World group, and got to know Higuchi Ichiyo. However, his style changed, and he was seen as a representative of idealist novels, with works such as The Secretary and The Back and Front in 1895. In the 1890s, he produced the travelogue Futokoro Nikki, as well as the large-scale Kannon Rock, which touched on the feudal nature of rural areas, and later showed a tendency towards naturalism, but he committed suicide in June 1908. [Oka Yasuo] …

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…その後紅葉らから離れて《文学界》同人に近づき，樋口一葉とも知ったが，作風にも変化を見せ95年の《書記官》《うらおもて》などで観念小説の代表者と見られた。明治30年代には，紀行《ふところ日記》のほか，地方農村の封建性にふれた大作《観音岩》その他があり，のち自然主義的傾向も見せたが，1908年6月自殺。【岡 保生】。…

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