Kyōka was born Izumi Kyōtarō on Novemin the Shitashinmachi section of Kanazawa, Ishikawa, to Izumi Seiji ( 泉 清次, Izumi Seiji), a chaser and inlayer of metallic ornaments, and Nakata Suzu ( 中田 鈴, Nakata Suzu), daughter of a tsuzumi hand-drum player from Edo and younger sister to lead protagonist of the Noh theater, Kintarō Matsumoto. Like Natsume Sōseki and other Japanese authors with pen names, Kyōka is usually known by his pen name rather than his real given name. He is also considered one of the supreme stylists in modern Japanese literature, and the difficulty and richness of his prose has been frequently noted by fellow authors and critics. He is best known for a characteristic brand of Romanticism preferring tales of the supernatural heavily influenced by works of the earlier Edo period in Japanese arts and letters, which he tempered with his own personal vision of aesthetics and art in the modern age. Many of Kyōka's works are surrealist critiques of society. Kyōka's writing differed greatly from that of the naturalist writers who dominated the literary scene at the time. Izumi Kyōka ( 泉 鏡花, Izumi Kyōka, 4 November 1873 – 7 September 1939), real name Kyōtarō Izumi ( 泉 鏡太郎, Izumi Kyōtarō), was a Japanese author of novels, short stories, and kabuki plays who was active during the prewar period.
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