Shūgorō Yamamoto

Satomu Shimizu

Born June 22, 1903· Otsuki, Yamanashi, Japan

† Died February 14, 1967

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Emerging from a modest background in Otsuki, Yamanashi, he left secondary school for financial reasons but pursued studies part-time while lodging above a second-hand bookshop, a place that supplied his pen name. His literary debut arrived in 1926 with a short story and a three-act play, initially aimed at children, before shifting in 1932 to popular adult fiction such as Dadara Dambei. Throughout… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources