Mikami Otokichi - Mikami Otokichi

Novelist. Born in Saitama Prefecture. In middle school, he was baptized by naturalism, wrote letters to the magazine Bunsho Sekai, and aspired to become a writer. After dropping out of the English department at Waseda University, he self-published the full-length novel Under the Spring Light in 1915 (Taisho 4), but it was banned for touching on the Korean independence movement. This work led to his acquaintance with Ikuta Chosuke, editor-in-chief of the Kodan Magazine, who serialized the full-length contemporary novel Akuma no Koi (The Devil's Love) (1916) in the magazine, which was very well received. In 1924, he serialized his breakthrough novel White Demon in the Jiji Shimpo, and this contemporary novel established his position as a popular writer, and also opened up a unique realm in period pieces with Katakiuchi Nichigetsu Soshi (1939). His period novels include "Yukinojo Henge" (1934-35), "Yodo-gi-mi" (1927), and "Kiyokawa Hachiro" (1929). He lived with the female writer Hasegawa Shigure and helped her found the women's literary magazine "Women's Art."

[Isogai Katsutaro]

"The Revised and Expanded Collection of Showa National Literature, Volume 5, Mikami Otokichi Collection" (1978, Chikuma Shobo)

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小説家。埼玉県生まれ。中学時代から自然主義の洗礼を受けて『文章世界』に投書し、創作に志した。早稲田(わせだ)大学英文科中退後、1915年（大正4）長編小説『春光の下に』を自費出版したが、朝鮮の独立運動に触れているという理由で発禁処分となった。この作品が機縁で、『講談雑誌』主幹生田蝶介(いくたちょうすけ)の知遇を得て、同誌に長編現代小説『悪魔の恋』（1916）を連載し、大好評を博した。24年『時事新報』に出世作長編『白鬼』を連載、この現代小説によって大衆作家としての地位を確立、また『敵討(かたきうち)日月草紙』（1939）で時代物に独自の境地を開いた。『雪之丞変化(ゆきのじょうへんげ)』（1934～35）、『淀君(よどぎみ)』（1927）、『清河八郎』（1929）などは時代小説の代表作である。女流作家長谷川時雨(はせがわしぐれ)と同棲(どうせい)、時雨の女流文芸誌『女人(にょにん)芸術』の創刊を助けた。

［磯貝勝太郎］

『『増補昭和国民文学全集5　三上於菟吉集』（1978・筑摩書房）』

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