Yumeno Kyusaku - Yumeno Kyusaku

Japanese: 夢野久作 - ゆめのきゅうさく

Born: January 4, 1889 in Fukuoka
[Died] March 11, 1936. Fukuoka novelist. Real name Sugiyama Yasumichi. He spent his childhood surrounded by his grandfather, who was fond of Noh and Yokyoku, and was rebellious and conflicted against his father, Sugiyama Shigemaru, who was the mastermind behind the Genyosha movement. After graduating from Shuyukan, a Fukuoka prefectural junior high school, he volunteered to join the First Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Guard, but was discharged the following year in 1909 and went on to Keio University. However, he later withdrew from school at his father's command and was brought back to a farm in Fukuoka, where he soon became a monk and lived a life of training as a Zen monk, and also worked as a Noh professor and a newspaper reporter. In 1947, he published the children's story "Shiragakozo" under the pen name Sugiyama Moen, and in 1951, he submitted "Ayakashi no Tsuzumi" to the creative detective novel contest for "Shin Seinen" and won second place. From then on, he used the pen name Yumeno Kyusaku and published his masterpiece Dogura Magura in 1935. It was a unique work that shocked people with its philosophical theme of "existential murder" in the form of a detective novel written by a madman. He also explored the world of undifferentiated consciousness in Oshie no Kiseki (The Miracle of the Pressed Picture) (1929) and Inugami Hakase (Dr. Inugami) (31), but there were also works such as Koori no Hate (The Edge of Ice) and Ankoku Koushi (The Dark Prince) (33) that showed an aspiration towards universality and breadth. He collapsed while serving customers and passed away at the age of 47.

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Japanese:

[生]1889.1.4. 福岡
[没]1936.3.11. 福岡
小説家。本名杉山泰道。玄洋社系の黒幕的存在だった父，杉山茂丸に対する反発と葛藤のなか，能，謡曲をたしなむ祖父のもとで幼少期を過す。福岡県立中学の修猷館卒業後，志願兵として近衛歩兵第一連隊に入隊するが，翌 1909年に除隊，慶應義塾大学に進んだ。しかしその後，父の命で退学，福岡の農園に連れ戻されたが，まもなく出家して禅僧となり修行生活をおくり，謡曲教授，新聞記者なども経験する。 22年杉山萌円の筆名で童話『白髪小僧』を発表，26年『新青年』の創作探偵小説に『あやかしの鼓』で応募して2位入選。これ以降，夢野久作の筆名を用い，35年には大作『ドグラ・マグラ』を発表，狂人が書いた推理小説というかたちをかりながら「存在上の殺人」をテーマに据えた哲学小説ともいうべき異色の作品で人々に衝撃を与えた。さらに『押絵の奇蹟』 (1929) ，『犬神博士』 (31) でも未分化な意識の世界が追求されるが，『氷の涯』『暗黒公子』 (33) などでは普遍性，広がりといったものへの志向がみられる作品も一方にあった。接客中に倒れ，47年の生涯を終えた。

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