Kyoka Izumi

Kyoka Izumi

," is a tale about a monk's journey through a mountainous wilderness, encountering inexplicable and unsettling experiences. Borrowing and embellishing themes from Edo period popular fiction, folklore and Noh drama, more than half of Kyōka 's works incorporate some form of supernatural element. Kyōka's narrative style borrows from traditional rakugo storytelling, and also uses dramatic dialogues similar to that used in kabuki drama.

Kyōka often depicted life in the "hanamachi" of downtown Edo or Tokyo, which is why he is often compared with his contemporaries Nagai Kafu and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. However, Kyōka makes much more use of a complex plot and suspense in his narrative. Another thematic concept strong in his writings is that of a beautiful older woman taking care of a young man.

The Izumi Kyoka Prize is a literary award established by the city of Kanazawa, first awarded in 1973 on the hundredth anniversary of Kyōka's birth.

References

* [http://www.city.kamakura.kanagawa.jp/english/bunjin/izumi_e.htm The city of Kamakura's page on Kyoka]
*Izumi Kyoka entry in the Japanese Wikipedia
* [http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~ant/nenpu.html Article (in Japanese) from the 14th book of the "Complete Works of Izumi Kyoka"]
* [http://www.city.kanazawa.ishikawa.jp/bunho/ikkinen/ The city of Kanazawa's page on its Izumi Kyoka Memorial Hall and Museum]

Books in English

*cite book | last=Inouye | first=Charles Shiro | title=The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Kyoka (1873–1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | publisher=Harvard University Press | year=1998 | id=ISBN 0-674-80816-9
*cite book | last=Keene | first=Donald | title=Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era | chapter=Izumi Kyōka | pages=202-219 | location=New York | publisher=Columbia University Press | year=1998 | id=ISBN 0-231-11435-4
*cite book | last=Poulton | first=M. Cody | title=Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka | location=Ann Arbor | publisher=Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan | year=2001 | id=ISBN 0-939512-01-7 (Note: Includes English translations of Nihongo|"Demon Pond"|夜叉ヶ池|Yasha ga Ike, Nihongo|"The Sea God's Villa"|海神別荘|Kaijin Bessō, and Nihongo|"The Castle Tower"|天守物語|Tenshu Monogatari)

Translations into English

*cite book | last =Izumi Kyoka| editors=Edward Seidensticker trans. | chapter= A Tale of Three Who Were Blind | title=Modern Japanese Literature | others=Donald Keene, ed.| publisher=Grove Press | location=New York | year=1956 | pages=242-253 | id=ISBN 0-8021-5095-0
*cite book | author=Izumi Kyoka|editors=Charles Shiro Inouye ed. and trans.| title= Japanese Gothic Tales| publisher=University of Hawaii Press |location=Honolulu| year=1996 | id=ISBN 0-8248-1789-3
*cite book | last=Izumi Kyoka | editors=Charles Shiro Inouye ed. and trans.| title=In Light Of Shadows: More Gothic Tales By Izumi Kyoka | publisher=University of Hawaii Press | location=Honolulu| year=2004 | pages=242–253 | id=ISBN 0-8248-2894-1
* An online translation of [http://www.intangible.org/Features/koya/koyahome.html "The Holy Man of Mount Koya"] by Steven W. Kohl.
*cite book | last=Izumi Kyoka | editors=Kimpei Ohara and Rick Broadaway, trans.| title=Demon Lake (Bilingual Edition) | publisher=Polestar Books| location=Tokyo| year=2007 | id=ISBN 978-4590012162

External links

* [http://www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/person50.html e-texts of Kyōka's works] at Aozora Bunko.
* [http://www.horror-house.jp/e/cat4/kyoka-izumi-18731939.html Kyōka Izumi's grave]


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