Akinari Ueda (1734–1809)
Author of Tales of Moonlight and Rain
About the Author
An adopted child, Ueda ran the family business before he became a full-time writer. In writing Ugetsu Monogatari, the gothic tales for which he is probably best known, he drew on both Chinese and Japanese classical traditions and produced a work known for its elegant diction. He was also respected show more as a waka poet and as a scholar of ancient Japanese literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
pseudonym of Ueda Senjiro
Works by Akinari Ueda
Associated Works
Partings at Dawn: An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature (12th - 20th Century) (1996) — Contributor — 72 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1734-07-25
- Date of death
- 1809-08-08
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Japan
- Birthplace
- Osaka, Japan
- Place of death
- Kyoto, Japan
- Places of residence
- Osaka, Japan (birth)
Kyoto, Japan (death) - Occupations
- merchant
short-story writer
poet - Disambiguation notice
- pseudonym of Ueda Senjiro
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This is the only book I’ve read by somebody from Japan, and I didn’t have anything to say about it, really; and now, I’m talking about that. I’ve read Asian-American syncretists and cool kids and if life were a movie I probably would have been in East Meets West with “Cool Kids” playing as the soundtrack—I wish that I could, be like the cool kids—but no other book by a native Japanese person, or classical East Asian lit….
And I almost couldn’t be nice once, to a very classically emoting person from Japan, internally couldn’t get along, because he was, different, you know. I’m an American; I think I’m cool. And nothing would be easier for me, than to blame my antipathy for the Asians on the Blacks, and my antipathy for the Blacks on the Asians.
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