Ryudokai - Ryudokai

Japanese: 竜土会 - りゅうどかい

A gathering of literary figures in the late Meiji period. It began in the early 1900s when Tayama Katai, Kunikida Doppo and others visited Yanagita Kunio's residence in Ushigome Kagacho, Tokyo to discuss literature. From January 1902, when the meeting took place at the Western restaurant Kairakutei in Kojicho, the venue was set up outside and continued. The exchanges between the young literary generation, including Kambara Ariake, Shimazaki Toson, Oguri Fuyō and Yanagawa Shunyō, were largely due to the momentum of a new era and the way they influenced each other. After moving from Seifūtei under Akagi Shrine in Ushigome and a yakitori restaurant in Kishimojin, Zōshigaya, to the French restaurant Ryudoken in Azabu Ryudocho in November 1904, the venue became the regular meeting place and the name was decided.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

明治後期の文学者の集まり。1900年代初頭，東京牛込加賀町の柳田国男邸に田山花袋，国木田独歩らが寄って文学談を交わしたのが始まりで，1902年1月，麴町の西洋料理店快楽亭の会合からは会場を外に設けて続けられた。蒲原有明，島崎藤村，小栗風葉，柳川春葉ら若い文学世代の交流は，新時代への気運をはらんで影響し合うところが大きかった。牛込赤城神社下の清風亭，雑司ヶ谷鬼子母神の焼鳥屋などから，04年11月，麻布竜土町のフランス料理店竜土軒に移って以後，ここが例会場となり会名も定まった。

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