Tsubouchi Shōyō

In this Japanese name, the surname is Tsubouchi.
Tsubouchi Shōyō

Tsubouchi Shōyō (坪内 逍遥, May 22, 1859 – February 28, 1935) was a Japanese author, critic, playwright, translator, editor, educator, and professor at Waseda University. He has been referred to as a seminal figure in Japanese drama.[1]

Biography

He was born Tsubouchi Yūzō (坪内 雄蔵), in Gifu prefecture. He also used the pen name Harunoya Oboro (春のや おぼろ).

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 William 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, Urashima Tarō.

Besides Shakespeare, he also translated a number of other works from English into Japanese, including Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor and Bulwer-Lytton's novel Rienzi, 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.

Bust of Tsubouchi Shōyō at the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, which was named in his honour

The Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum was named in his honour and houses a large collection of his works. A bronze bust of him was also placed there.

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)

See also

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References

  1. ^ Foley, Kathy (2016). "Review of MODERN ASIAN THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE 1900–2000, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.; THE METHUEN DRAMA ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN ASIAN PLAYS, Siyuan Liu, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr". Asian Theatre Journal. 33 (1): 217–220. doi:10.1353/atj.2016.0011. ISSN 0742-5457. JSTOR 24737166. S2CID 164011855. "Wetmore deals cleanly with Japanese theatre as part of the modernization project [...] Wetmore notes some of the new attempts within the kabuki frame then takes us through the work of seminal figures like Osanai Kaoru, Tsbouchi Shōyo, and so on.
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