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Ryo Goto

ごとう りょう

Goto Ryo

Pen Names: Ryo Goto（Pen name used as author and critic）

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1909-07-18 （Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan）
Died
2003-10-04 age 94
Nationality
Japanese
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
literary critic, novelist
Active Years
1937-2003

Education

Kokugakuin University
Teacher Training Department
Country: Japan
Graduated from the Teacher Training Department

Awards

Yomiuri Literary Prize
1967
Work: Masamune Hakucho: Literature and Life
Organization: Yomiuri Shimbun
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Hada wa Tsuyuredo

1933 fiction

Water Temperature

1937 short story

Masamune Hakucho: Literature and Life

1966 literary criticism

A critical study discussing the life and works of Masamune Hakucho.

literary historybiographical study

Naturalism and the Aesthetic School

1972 literary criticism
naturalismaestheticism

The Secret of Kenbishi Gencho

1972 short story

Bibliography

  • Hada wa Tsuyuredo
  • Masamune Hakucho: Literature and Life
  • Naturalism and the Aesthetic School
  • Water Temperature
  • The Secret of Kenbishi Gencho

Style & Themes

Literary Style
analytical and clear critical prose
Recurring Motifs
reassessment of literary historyrelationship between author and work

Legacy

A literary critic and novelist from Nagasaki. Awarded the 1967 Yomiuri Literary Prize for his study of Masamune Hakucho; contributed to postwar Japanese literary criticism.

Trivia

  • His legal name's reading was 'Akira'.
  • Not to be confused with individuals named 後藤良 or 後藤涼.
  • Graduated from Kokugakuin University's Teacher Training Department.