Sakunosuke Oda
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Sakunosuke Oda | |
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Born | Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan | October 26, 1913
Died | January 10, 1947 Tokyo, Japan | (aged 33)
Occupation | Novelist |
Genre | Contemporary |
Literary movement | I Novel, Buraiha |
Sakunosuke Oda (
Life and Writings
[edit]Oda's writing career spans both prewar and postwar Japan. A native of Osaka, he wrote about most of life in that city and the customs and manners of the common people there. In 1939, his story Zokushu (
Oda's characters usually did not fit into what was traditionally considered appropriate forms, either in their frank humanness or in their stubborn individuality, as in Roppakukinsei (
Oda also wrote radio drama scenarios and submitted a script to a magazine that was later made into the film Kaette kita otoko (
In addition to his fiction, Oda wrote many critical essays, most notably "Kanōsei no bungaku" (
In 1947, after suffering from a lung hemorrhage, Oda died in Tokyo Hospital. After the funeral, his friend and fellow writer Osamu Dazai published an emotional eulogy blaming the critics for Oda's sudden death. More likely, it was from a recurrent bout of tuberculosis. Oda is buried in Osaka.
In 1963, a monument was erected by Oda's friends and colleagues near Hozenji Temple in Osaka. Hozenji Yokochō and its surrounding alleys are one of the main settings in Meoto Zenzai.
In 1983, under the sponsorship of the Osaka Bungaku Shinkōkai, a literary prize was established in Oda's name to commemorate the 70th anniversary of his birth and to carry on the long tradition of Kansai literature. It is awarded annually to an outstanding work of fiction by a new author.
An autographed photograph of Oda hangs in the Osaka restaurant Jiyūken (
Adaptations and Translations
[edit]Several of Oda's stories have been made into movies, including Deep Autumn (
Meoto zenzai, Roppakukinsei, and Sesō, along with another story, Ki no Miyako (
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Jiyūken restaurant autographed photo with inscription (in Japanese)
https://web.archive.org/web/20101126091605/http://japan-101.com/culture/oda_sakunosuke.htm
External links
[edit]- Meoto Zenzai online text (in Japanese)