Hyakken Uchida

Infobox Writer
name = Hyakken Uchida


imagesize = 90px
caption =
pseudonym =
birthdate = birth date|1889|5|29|mf=y
birthplace = Okayama, Okayama, Japan
deathdate = death date and age|1971|4|20|1889|5|29|mf=y
deathplace = Tokyo, Japan
occupation = Writer and academic
nationality = Japan
period =
genre =
subject =
movement =
influences =
influenced =


website = nihongo|Hyakken Uchida|内田 百間 [His name Hyakken is normally written 百閒, the latter character (which cannot be displayed by some computers) being a variant of 間 with 月 rather than 日 inside 門.] |"Uchida Hyakken"|May 29, 1889—April 20, 1971 was a Japanese author and academic. He was born in Okayama, to a family of sake brewers whose business later went bankrupt. His real name is Eizo Uchida (内田 栄造 "Uchida Eizo"). He became a pupil of Natsume Sōseki in 1911. He graduated from Tokyo University (Tokyo Imperial University) in 1914. He became professor of German at Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1916. He later taught at Hosei University (Tokyo). He is the main subject of Akira Kurosawa's last film, "Madadayo". His novel, "Disk of Sarasate" (サラサーテの盤 "Sarasāte no ban") is the the inspiration for the film, "Zigeunerweisen". He is the author of more than fifteen volumes of writings including "I am a Cat: The Fake Version", and "Gates Close at Dusk". In Japan he is well known as a passionate railfan and he made some works on railway travelFact|date=February 2007. A great literary figure in Japan, he has but one book translated into English: "Realm of the Dead", a collection of short stories whose title work is perhaps his most well known. A translated excerpt from another collection, "Hyakkien Zuihitsu" [Jottings from the Goblins' Garden] , appeared in the JAL inflight magazine "Skyward", January, 2006: "Small Round Things." He had two sons and three daughters.

Note

ee also

*Madadayo

External links

*
* [http://www.horror-house.jp/e/cat4/hyakken-uchida18891971.html Hyakken Uchida's grave]