Suiin Emi

Suiin Emi (江見 水蔭 Emi Suiin, 17 September 1869 – 3 November 1934) was a Japanese novelist and journalist.

Born in Okayama into a shizoku (former samurai) family,[1] he travelled to Tokyo to join the army but instead joined the Kenyūsha literary society and quickly became celebrated during the Sino-Japanese War for his patriotic stories in the newspaper Chūō Shinbun.[2]

A pillar of the Meiji-era literary establishment, and the editor of Kobe Shinbun and Taiheiyo[3] as well as Senshibankō[4] and Kozakuraodoshi,[1] his writing is marred for modern readers by its imperialist outlook, one example being Osero, a new version of Othello commissioned for the Otojiro Kawakami troupe and set in the Taiwan of 1903, in which the Othello figure, the governor Lt. Gen. Muro Washirō, is a Japanese burakumin who has been sent to the island to suppress a rebellion.[5]

He was the first to refer to sumo as the national sport (kokugi), inspiring the name of the Ryōgoku Kokugikan stadium built in 1909.[6] He died in Matsuyama.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Henshall, p.21
  2. ↑ James L. Huffman. Creating a public: people and press in Meiji Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 1997. Page 211.
  3. ↑ Who's who in Japan. Volume 22, 1941.
  4. ↑ Levy, p.204
  5. ↑ Levy, p.209
  6. ↑ "Kokugikan celebrates 100th anniversary." Yomiuri Shimbun. 7 June 2009.

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