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Osamu Dazai
Shūji Tsushima , known by his pen name Osamu Dazai , was a Japanese novelist and author. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun and No Longer Human, are considered modern classics.
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culture · Japanese author (1909–1948) · writer · novelist · short story writer · also Osamu Dazai, Tsushima Shuji, Shūji Tsushima, Shuji Tsushima, Dazai Osamu, Tsushima Shūji
Born 19 June 1909 · Died 13 June 1948 · Q317685
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Była chłodna, jesienna noc. Czekałem, tak jak byliśmy umówieni, na Tsuneko (nie bardzo pamiętam, ale chyba tak miała na imię; cały ja – żeby nie pamiętać imienia kobiety, z którą próbowałem odebrać sobie życie) przy ulicznym kramie w którymś z zaułków Ginzy i jadłem niesmaczne sushi. Ciekawe, że nie jestem pewien imienia dziewczyny, za to doskonale zachowuję w pamięci beznadziejny smak jedzenia.
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2024· 1 entry
Game Rant: What's Up With Anime's Obsession With Osamu Dazai?
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2023· 2 entries
毎日新聞: Letters on Japanese author Osamu Dazai's hospital stay for opioid addiction unearthed
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Game Rant: Bungou Stray Dogs: 10 Things You May Not Know About Osamu Dazai
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2022· 1 entry
朝日新聞社: Aomori farmers create apple wine from Osamu Dazai's ‘Tsugaru’
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2019· 1 entry
Mika Ninagawa directed the film Ningen Shikkaku: Osamu Dazai and the three women, a biographical film about Dazai, starring Shun Oguri
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2017· 1 entry
ジャパンタイムズ: ‘Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy’: Between the fantasy and reality of Osamu Dazai
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1948· 3 entries
Dazai and Tomie drowned themselves in the rain-swollen Tamagawa Aqueduct, near his house
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Died 1948-06-13.
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“Była chłodna, jesienna noc. Czekałem, tak jak byliśmy umówieni, na Tsuneko (nie bardzo pamiętam, ale chyba tak miała na imię; cały ja – żeby nie pamiętać imienia kobiety, z którą próbowałem odebrać sobie życie) przy ulicznym kramie w którymś z zaułków Ginzy i jadłem niesmaczne sushi. Ciekawe, że nie jestem pewien imienia dziewczyny, za to doskonale zachowuję w pamięci beznadziejny smak jedzenia.”
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1946· 2 entries
A group of writers that included Dazai was joined by Yukio Mishima for dinner at a restaurant
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Dazai published a controversial memoir, Kuno no Nenkan ("Almanac of Pain"), in which he describes the immediate aftermath of Japan's defeat and seeks to encapsulate how the Japanese felt at the time
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1939· 1 entry
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1937· 1 entry
Dazai attempted to commit shinjū (joint suicide) with his wife by overdosing on Calmotin, but neither died
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1935· 1 entry
It started to become clear to Dazai that he would not graduate
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1930· 2 entries
Enrolled in the French literature department of Tokyo Imperial University
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Ten days after he was suspended from Tokyo Imperial University for non-payment of fees, Dazai attempted double suicide by drowning off a beach in Kamakura while simultaneously overdosing on Calmotin, with a 19-year-old b
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1929· 1 entry
When the principal of Hirosaki Higher School was found to have misappropriated public funds, the students, under the leadership of Ueda Shigehiko (Ishigami Genichiro), leader of the Social Science Study Group, staged a f
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1927· 1 entry
By Hirosaki Higher School, a university preparatory school
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1923· 1 entry
His father Gen'emon died from lung cancer
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1916· 1 entry
Dazai began his education at Kanagi Elementary
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1909· 2 entries
The eighth surviving child of a wealthy landowner and politician in Kanagi, located at the northern tip of the Tōhoku Region, in Aomori Prefecture
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Born 1909-06-19.
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