Gidayu is a form of puppet theatre which stems from the Edo period. Interesting enough, Shuji was not majoring on anything related to literary, instead, he was majoring in theatre - gidayu in particular. He participated in literary magazines, wrote self-published poems, and even wrote on the newspaper at Hirosaki University.

With his father busy, and his mother sick most of the time, Shuji was always in the company of their family’s maids and workers who were responsible for bringing him up.Īt his pre-adolescent years, Shuji already showed a lot of potential with his writing.

However, after the birth of the eleventh child, Tane’s health deteriorated rapidly. The Tsushima family was rather big, with eleven children born under Gen’emon and Tane Tsushima. Their luxuries can be attributed to the great political influence that was received by his father, Tushima Gen’emon. He was born on the 19th of June 1909 to a life of privilege, in a big mansion filled with servants. His birth name was Shuji Tsushima before he took on Osamu Dazai as his pen name. The Biography of Osamu Dazai: His Early Life, Birthday, Relationships, and Tragic Endĭazai hails from an aristocratic family in the Kanagi region of Japan, the Tsushima clan. All of those will be tackled later on in this article. However, his immense talent is perpetually overshadowed by the tragic events that kept recurring in his life. His works were positively received in Japan, as he was considered to be a pioneer in fiction writing for that period. Osamu Dazai is believed to be the best fiction author in modern-day Japan by the twentieth century.

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