Yamada Mimyo

Japanese: 山田美妙 - やまだ・びみょう

Year of death: October 24, 1910 (Meiji 43)
Year of birth: 8th/7th Meiji 1 (8th/25th 1868)
A novelist, poet and critic from the Meiji period. His real name was Taketaro. Other names included Shokou Kaerufune, Bimyosai, Bimyoko and Hiei. He was the son of Yoshio, a former samurai of the Nanbu clan. He was born in Kanda, Edo. He grew up with his mother Yoshi and step-grandmother, living separately from his father, who became the chief of the Shimane Prefectural Police. He dropped out of First Higher School. In 1885, while attending the University Preparatory School, he founded the Kenyusha with Ozaki Koyo and others, and launched the journal Garakuta Bunko. He experimented with colloquial and literary style in "Shokai Shosetsu Tengu" (1886-87). After failing to enter the Faculty of Letters at the Imperial University in 1887, he decided to pursue a career in literature and published the women's magazine Iratsume. In 1888, he established his position in the literary world with "Summer Trees," and left Kenyusha to become the editor-in-chief of Miyako no Hana. "Kocho" (1889) was well-received with illustrations of nude bodies by Watanabe Seitei, and he also participated in debates on Japanese verse and published "Nihon Daijisho" (1892-93). However, after his divorce from female writer Tazawa Inafune, he was ostracized by society due to the Inafune Incident (1896) surrounding Inafune's death, and he left the literary world. <Works> "Bityo Selected Works" <References> "Yamada Bityo" (Modern Literature Research Series, Volume 11), Yamamoto Masahide "Historical Study of the Origin of Modern Style"

(Junko Saeki)

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没年：明治43.10.24(1910)
生年：明治1.7.8(1868.8.25)
明治時代の小説家,詩人,評論家。本名武太郎。別号樵耕蛙船,美妙斎,美妙子,飛影など。元南部藩士吉雄の子。江戸神田生まれ。島根県警部長となった父とは別居し,母よしと義祖母のもとで育つ。一高中退。大学予備門在学中の明治18(1885)年,尾崎紅葉らと硯友社を興し,機関誌『我楽多文庫』を創刊,「嘲戒小説天狗」(1886～87)で言文一致体を試みる。20年帝大文科大学への入学に失敗して文学への志を固め,婦人雑誌『いらつめ』を発行。21年「夏木立」で文壇での地位を確立,『都の花』主幹となり硯友社を離れる。『胡蝶』(1889)は渡辺省亭の裸体の挿絵とともに評判を呼び,また日本韻文論論争を行い『日本大辞書』(1892～93)を刊行するが,女性作家田沢稲舟との離婚後,稲舟の死をめぐる稲舟事件(1896)によって世間から排斥され,文壇を去る。<著作>『美妙選集』<参考文献>「山田美妙」(近代文学研究叢書11巻),山本正秀『近代文体発生の史的研究』

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