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Tsubouchi Shoyo (坪内逍遥, Tsubouchi Shōyō) (May 22, 1859 - February 28, 1935) was a Japanese author, critic, playwright, translator, editor, educator, and professor at Waseda University. He was born Tsubouchi Yuzo, in Gifu prefecture. He also used the pen name Harunoya Oboro.
   His book of criticism, Shōsetsu Shinzui (The Essence of the Novel), helped free novels and dramas from the low opinion that the Japanese had of such literature. Tsubouchi's writings on realism in literature influenced Masaoka Shiki's ideas about realism in haiku. Tsubouchi's novel, Tōsei Shosei katagi (Portraits of Contemporary Students), was one of the earliest modern novels in Japan.
   His Kabuki play Kiri Hitoha (A Paulownia Leaf) was influenced by his studies of both the famous Kabuki and Jōruri (puppet theater) dramatist Chikamatsu Monzaemon and Shakespeare. The play, in turn, influenced modern Kabuki. He also did a complete translation of the plays of Shakespeare, written in the old-fashion language of Kabuki.
   His modern play, Shinkyoku Urashima, incorporating traditional dance and music, was a popular and critical success. The play was a retelling of a familiar Japanese folk-tale with a Rip Van Winkle-like protagonist.
   Besides Shakespeare, he also translated a number of other works from English into Japanese, including Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammer and Bulwer-Lytton's novel Riezi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes.
   Tsubouchi founded and edited the periodical Waseda Bungaku (Waseda Literature), which published from 1891 to 1898. Tsubouchi is also noted for the long running ronsō (literary dispute) that he carried on with Mori Ōgai.

Works

Criticism

Shōsetsu Shinzui (The Essence of the Novel) (1885)

Novel

Tōsei Shosei katagi (Portraits of Contemporary Students) (1885)

Saikun (1889)

Kabuki Plays

Kiri Hitoha (A Paulownia Leaf) written 1894-5, and performed in 1904

Maki no Kata (1896)

Hototogisu Kojō no Rakugetsu (The Sinking Moon over the Lonely Castle Where the Cuckoo Cries) (1897)

Modern Dramas

Shinkyoku Urashima (The New Urashima) (1904)

En no Gyōja (En the Ascetic) (1916)Further Information

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