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The Setting Sun (斜陽, Shayō) is a Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai first published in 1947. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The story centers on an aristocratic family in decline and crisis during the early years after World War II .
Shūji Tsushima (津島 修治, Tsushima Shūji, 19 June 1909 – 13 June 1948), known by his pen name Osamu Dazai (太宰 治, Dazai Osamu), was a Japanese novelist and author. [1] A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun (斜陽, Shayō) and No Longer Human (人間失格, Ningen Shikkaku), are considered modern-day classics ...
Setting Sun may refer to: The Setting Sun, a 1947 Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai; The Setting Sun, a 1992 film directed by Rou Tomono; Setting Sun (band), an American rock band; Setting Sun (horse) (1952–1976), a champion Tennessee Walking Horse "Setting Sun" (The Chemical Brothers song), a song on The Chemical Brothers' 1996 album Dig Your ...
No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku), also translated as A Shameful Life, is a 1948 novel by Japanese author Osamu Dazai.It tells the story of a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who, instead, maintains a façade of hollow jocularity, later turning to a life of alcoholism and drug abuse before his final disappearance.
Otogi-zōshi (Dazai) S. The Setting Sun This page was last edited on 6 January 2018, at 12:29 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Flowers of Buffoonery (道化の華, Dōke no Hana) is a 1935 Japanese novella by Osamu Dazai.Initially titled The Sea (海, Umi) in an early draft Dazai shared with friends, [1] the work was first published [2] in the short-lived coterie journal Nihon romanha [] and has been described as a "major contribution" to the magazine. [3]
Osamu Dazai's novel The Setting Sun tells of a soldier returning from Manchukuo. Shōhei Ōoka won the Yomiuri Prize for his novel Fires on the Plain about a Japanese deserter going mad in the Philippine jungle. Yukio Mishima, well known for both his nihilistic writing and his controversial suicide by seppuku, began writing in the post-war period.
The building was built in 1907 by Dazai's father, who was a wealthy landowner and member of the Japanese Diet during the Meiji period. [1] Dazai lived in the house from his birth in 1909 until 1923, when he moved to the city of Aomori. Afterward, he returned on a number of occasions, and moved back into the house from 1942 to 1945.