Yamada Bimyō, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yamada Bimyō

Japanese writer

Date of Birth: 25-Aug-1868

Place of Birth: Kanda, Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 24-Oct-1910

Profession: writer, literary critic, novelist, lexicographer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Yamada Bimyo (?? ??), born Yamada Taketaro (?? ???, 1868–1910), was a Japanese novelist.Jim Reichert, author of Yamada Bimyo: Historical Fiction and Modern Love, wrote that Bimyo was "one of the most influential literary reformers of the 1880s" who had "an instrumental role" in producing rekishi shosetsu, the modern form of a Japanese historical novel.
According to Reichert, during the 1880s the public perceived Bimyo "to be at the forefront of the literary reform movement, offering a fresh and exciting strategy for reforming Japanese literature."Louis Frédéric, author of the Japan Encyclopedia, wrote that Bimyo was, along with Koda Rohan, "the most representative authors" of the first modern school of literature to appear in Meiji Japan.