Shūsei Tokuda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Shūsei Tokuda

Japanese writer

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1872

Place of Birth: Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 18-Nov-1943

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Shusei Tokuda (?? ??, Tokuda Shusei, 1 February 1872 – 18 November 1943, actually Tokuda Sueo) was a Japanese author from Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture.
Several of his novels were made into movies in Japan.
A monument honoring Tokuda was erected near the summit of Mount Utatsu in 1947.
The monument features writing authored by poet Muro Saisei and was designed by architect Yoshiro Taniguchi.
He wrote "Rough Living".His short story "The Town Dance Hall" is in the Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature.His short story "Order of the White Paulownia" is in the anthology "modern japanese stories" edited by Ivan Morris.A major biography of Tokuda by Richard Torrance was published in 1994.