Location: Zōshigaya Reien, Tokyo, Toshima, Kantō, Japan
Cause of death: Lung Cancer
Photo taken by: Keisetsu
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Japanese author of novels, short stories, and kabuki plays who was active during the prewar period. 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. He is 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. The Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature is a literary award established by the city of Kanazawa, first awarded in 1973 on the hundredth anniversary of Kyōka's birth.
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