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Created page with "*''Born: 1878/9/1'' *''Died: 1948/3/25'' *''Other Names'': 真山彬 ''(Mayama Akira)'' *''Japanese'': 真山青果 ''(Mayama Seika)'' Mayama Seika was a prominent noveli..."
*''Born: [[1878]]/9/1''
*''Died: 1948/3/25''
*''Other Names'': 真山彬 ''(Mayama Akira)''
*''Japanese'': 真山青果 ''(Mayama Seika)''
Mayama Seika was a prominent novelist and playwright of the [[Meiji period|Meiji]] through early Shôwa periods. He is perhaps most famous for his novel ''Minami Koizumi-mura'', and the [[kabuki]] play ''[[Genroku Chushingura|Genroku Chûshingura]]'', which is still performed quite regularly today.
Born Mayama Akira in [[Miyagi prefecture]], he dropped out of medical school as a youth to study under writer [[Oguri Fuyo|Oguri Fûyô]]. After his now-acclaimed novel ''Minami Koizumi-mura'' was published in [[1907]], he was expected to quickly become a rising star in the new "naturalist" literary movement, but, after an incident in [[1911]] where his manuscript was double-sold, he became estranged from the literary world.
He began working for [[Shochiku|Shôchiku]] in 1913, and became a ''[[shinpa]]'' (new-style theatre) playwright, producing such works as ''Genboku and Chôei''<!--玄朴と長英-->, ''Genroku Chûshingura'', and ''[[Taira no Masakado]]''.
He passed away on March 25, 1948.
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==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%9C%9F%E5%B1%B1%E9%9D%92%E6%9E%9C Mayama Seika]," ''Digital-ban Nihon jinmei daijiten'' デジタル版 日本人名大辞典, Kodansha, 2009.
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Artists and Artisans]]
*''Died: 1948/3/25''
*''Other Names'': 真山彬 ''(Mayama Akira)''
*''Japanese'': 真山青果 ''(Mayama Seika)''
Mayama Seika was a prominent novelist and playwright of the [[Meiji period|Meiji]] through early Shôwa periods. He is perhaps most famous for his novel ''Minami Koizumi-mura'', and the [[kabuki]] play ''[[Genroku Chushingura|Genroku Chûshingura]]'', which is still performed quite regularly today.
Born Mayama Akira in [[Miyagi prefecture]], he dropped out of medical school as a youth to study under writer [[Oguri Fuyo|Oguri Fûyô]]. After his now-acclaimed novel ''Minami Koizumi-mura'' was published in [[1907]], he was expected to quickly become a rising star in the new "naturalist" literary movement, but, after an incident in [[1911]] where his manuscript was double-sold, he became estranged from the literary world.
He began working for [[Shochiku|Shôchiku]] in 1913, and became a ''[[shinpa]]'' (new-style theatre) playwright, producing such works as ''Genboku and Chôei''<!--玄朴と長英-->, ''Genroku Chûshingura'', and ''[[Taira no Masakado]]''.
He passed away on March 25, 1948.
{{stub}}
==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%9C%9F%E5%B1%B1%E9%9D%92%E6%9E%9C Mayama Seika]," ''Digital-ban Nihon jinmei daijiten'' デジタル版 日本人名大辞典, Kodansha, 2009.
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Artists and Artisans]]