Kyūya Fukada
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Fukada Kyūya
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| Born |
11 March 1903 Kaga, Ishikawa, Japan |
| Died | 21 March 1971 (aged 67) Mount Kayagadake, Yamanashi prefecture Japan |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | non-fiction |
Kyūya Fukada (深田 久弥 Fukada Kyūya?, 11 March 1903 – 21 March 1971) was a Japanese writer and mountaineer active during the Showa period in Japan.
Kyūya was born in what is now Kaga city, Ishikawa prefecture. He attended the Fujishima High School, followed by the preparatory school for the Tokyo Imperial University, where he studied literature. During this time, he became friends with Hori Tatsuo and Takami Jun. He also joined the school's mountaineering club, and took the pen-name of Kyusan (literally Nine Mountains) as his haiku pseudonym.
While a student at Tokyo University, he began writing short stories, and he also fell in love with the poet Kitabatake Yao. Shortly after they started living together, he published his first work. Orokko no musume. The work was well received by critics, emboldening him enough to quit school in 1930 and to devote his energies to writing.
In 1932, Fukada published his next work, Asunarao. However, leading literary critics Kobayashi Hideo and Kawabata Yasunari soon realized that Asunarao and his previous work Orokko no musume were not Fukada's works at all, but had been copy-edited (or to put it less charitably, plagiarized) from the writings of Kitabatake Yao, which nearly ended his credibility as a writer.
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