Gotō Chūgai

Gotō Chūgai (後藤 宙外, 23 December 1866 – 12 June 1938) was the pen-name of Gotō Toranosuke, a Japanese essayist, novella writer, and literary critic active from the late Meiji through the early Shōwa periods of Japan.

Gotō Chūgai
Native name	後藤 宙外
Born	Gotō Toranosuke (1866-12-23)December 23, 1866 Daisen, Akita Japan
Died	June 12, 1938(1938-06-12) (aged 71) Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Japan
Occupation	essayist, literary critic
Language	Japanese

In this Japanese name, the surname is Gotō.

Biography

Born in the rural Senboku District of Akita prefecture (in what is now the city of Daisen, Gotō graduated from the Tokyo Semmon Gakko (present-day Waseda University). From 1900, he served as editor of the literary magazine Shinshōsetsu ("New Fiction"). Some of the writers who contributed to the magazine during his tenure were members of the Ken'yūsha literary society, including Hirotsu Ryurō, Kyōka Izumi, Shimazaki Toson, Natsume Sōseki and Nagai Kafū. He was strongly critical of the naturalism movement, which began to become popular around that time. His works include a novella, Funikudan (1899), and a collection of essays, Hi shizen shugi (1908).

See also

• Japanese literature
• List of Japanese authors

External links

• e-text of works at Aozora Bunko (Japanese)