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Watanabe Katei (渡辺 霞亭 ; 18 December 1884 – 7 April 1926) was a Japanese writer who wrote many popular novels under the pen names Hekirurien, Kuroboshi, Ryokuensho, among others. His extensive collection of Japanese fiction from the Edo period is now housed at University of Tokyo Library.

Works

  • Sofuren (想夫憐 "Sympathy of mutual love" – the title is from the name of a piece of Japanese classical music) 1903
  • Uzumaki ("Whirlpool") – filmed several times

References

  1. The University of Tokyo Calendar – Page 13 Tōkyō Daigaku – 1959 An extensive collection of Japanese fiction in the Yedo period, from the library of Katei Watanabe, a novelist, better known as "Hekirurien". SHACHIKU COLLECTION; CHIKUREI COLLECTION; CHIJU COLLECTION:— Nearly 5,000 volumes in ...
  2. The Japan Foundation Newsletter 1996 "The writers affiliated with newspapers in Osaka wrote a great deal; it was said, for example, that Katei Watanabe (1864— 1926) and Namiroku Murakami (1865— 1944) wrote books faster than people could read them." "
  3. Hon: A Book-bin for Scholars – Volumes 2–6 1971 JAPANESE LIBRARIES: A PROMENADE Katei Bunko Library — A Special Collection of the General Library of the University of Tokyo. Katei Watanabe, who was also known under the pen name of Hekirurien, Kuroboshi, Ryokuensho, etc., ...
  4. Joseph Koshimi Yamagiwa, Keiji Inaga Annotations 1965 Page 455 "Watanabe Katei writer, 1884–1926, wrote many popular novels Sofuren "Sympathy of mutual love" (a title derived from the name of a piece of Japanese classical music), a novel written by Watanabe Katei in 1903, with a second part added in ..."


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