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Hyakken Uchida (内田 百間, Uchida Hyakken, May 29, 1889 – April 20, 1971) was a Japanese author and academic.
Hyakken Uchida. Hyakken Uchida (1889-1971) was born in Okayama to a family of sake brewers whose business later went bankrupt. He started submitting his creative writings to magazines while still in secondary school and came to greatly admire the novelist Soseki Natsume.
Uchida Hyakken: A Critique of Modernity and Militarism in Prewar Japan. AUTHOR: Rachel DiNitto. About Book. The literary career of Uchida Hyakken (1889–1971) encompassed a wide variety of styles and genres, including fiction, zuihitsu (essays), war diaries, poetry, travelogues, and children’s stories.
Novelist and essayist. After he entered the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1910, he started to study under Natsume Soseki. After graduating from college he taught German at the Military Academy, the Naval Engineering College and Hosei University.
The film is based on the life and writings of short story writer and essayist Uchida Hyakken (1889–1971), who despite having lost everything in the air raids that ravaged Tokyo, remained in the city for three years in a small shack next to the burnt-out ruins of his neighbor’s house.
The literary career of Uchida Hyakken (1889–1971) encompassed a wide variety of styles and genres, including fiction, zuihitsu (essays), war diaries, poetry, travelogues, and children’s stories. In discussing his oeuvre, critics have circumscribed Hyakke...
Realm of the Dead describes the lands of both the living and the dead. In this collection of short stories, they are equally dark and mysterious worlds where logic and reality are subject to constant change and where ideas about identity and self are continually questioned.
