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Osamu Dazai

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No Longer Human
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The Setting Sun
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Schoolgirl
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The Flowers of Buffoonery
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Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
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Pandora's Box
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Run, Melos! and Other Stories
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Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
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Self-Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic
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Owoce wiśni
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Early Light
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The Beggar

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Osamu Dazai

Japanese author (–)

The native form of this personal name is Dazai Osamu. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

For the fictional character of the same name, see Osamu Dazai (Bungo Stray Dogs).

Shūji Tsushima (津島修治, Tsushima Shūji, 19 June – 13 June ), known by his pen nameOsamu Dazai (太宰治, Dazai Osamu), was a Japanese novelist and author.^[1] A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun (斜陽, Shayō) and No Longer Human (人間失格, Ningen Shikkaku), are considered modern classics.^[2]

His influences include Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Murasaki Shikibu and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. His last book, No Longer Human, is his most popular work outside of Japan.

Another pseudonym he used was Shunpei Kuroki (黒木舜平), for the book Illusion of the Cliffs (断崖の錯覚, Dangai no Sakkaku).

Early life

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Shūji Tsushima was born on June 19, , the eighth surviving child of a wealthy landowner^[3] and politician^[1] in Kanagi, located at the northern tip of the Tōhoku Region, in Aomori Prefecture. He was the tenth of the eleven children born to his parents. At the time of his birth, the huge, newly completed Tsushima mansion, where he spent his early years, was home to some thirty