Hyakken Uchida

was a Japanese author and academic.

Biography

Uchida was born in Okayama to a family of sake brewers whose business later went bankrupt. His real name is Eizo Uchida (内田榮造 Uchida Eizō). 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, . His novel, is the inspiration for the film, Zigeunerweisen. He is the author of more than fifteen volumes of writings including , and . In Japan he is well known as a passionate railfan and he made some works on railway travel.See Ahō ressha(Japanese). Though a great literary figure in Japan, he currently only has one book translated into English: Realm of the Dead (冥途 Meido). That volume also includes the collection Triumphal Entry into Ryojun (). "Small Round Things", a translated excerpt from another collection, Jottings from the Goblins' Garden (), appeared in the JAL inflight magazine Skyward in January 2006. He had two sons and three daughters.

Bibliography Novels (Realm of the Dead) (1922) (1934) Journal de Tokyo (1938) cité dans "1Q84" de H.Murakami, livre 3, chapitre 3, note 1. (The first appearance of the Tokyo Nikki in .) (1939) (The first appearance of the Nanzanju in .) (1939) (The first appearance of the Yanagi Kenkō no Shōkan in .) (1941) (1950) (The first appearance of the Sarasāte no ban in .) (1951) (1952–1956)

Essays (1933) (1933) (1934) (1941) (1946) (1951) (1957) (1971)

Children's literature (1934)

Diary (1935) (1937) (1955)

Haiku (1934) (1943)

Film , Toho, 1939), starring Roppa Furukawa. (Toho, 1980), directed by Seijun Suzuki, starring Yoshio Harada, original novel Sarasāte no ban. (Daiei, 1993), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Tatsuo Matsumura.

Hyakken Uchida

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