![]() ![]() In November of that year, however, Kyōka's aspiration to an artistic career drove him to Tokyo, where he intended to enter the tutelage of Kōyō himself. ![]() At this time he worked as a teacher in private preparatory schools and spent his free time running through yomihon and kusazōshi. That June he took a trip to Toyama Prefecture. It was a great blow to his young mind, and he would attempt to recreate memories of her in works throughout his literary career.Īt a friend's boarding house in April 1889, Kyōka was deeply impressed by Ozaki Kōyō's "Amorous Confessions of Two Nuns" and decided to pursue a career in literature. In April 1883, at ten years old, Kyōka lost his mother, who was 29 at the time. ![]() Because of his family's impovershed circumstances, he attended the tuition-free Hokuriku English-Japanese School, run by Christian missionaries.Įven before he entered grade school, young Kintarō's mother introduced him to literature in picture-books interspersed with text called kusazōshi, and his works would later show the influence of this early contact with such visual forms of story-telling. Kyōka was born Kyōtarō Izumi on Novemin the Shitashinmachi section of Kanazawa, Ishikawa, to Seiji Izumi, a chaser and inlayer of metallic ornaments, and Suzu Nakata, daughter of a tsuzumi hand-drum player from Edo and younger sister to lead protagonist of the Noh theater, Kintarō Matsumoto. ![]()
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