Dazai Osamu: Behind the Scenes of Creation

How was Dazai Osamu's literature created? Celebrating 110 years since Dazai's birth! This book features precious, rarely-before-published materials, including notebooks, manuscripts, drafts, and photographs, all in full color. By deciphering these surviving materials, we delve into the history of the Tsushima family, Dazai's life, and the background to the birth of Dazai's literature, revealing the true character of Dazai Osamu as a person. In addition to his masterpieces "Shayo" and "No Longer Human," the book also features a newly discovered handwritten manuscript of "Otogi Zoshi"!

[Table of Contents] On Publication: Hiroshi Sakagami Preface: Hiroshi Ando

Part 1: The Roots of Dazai Osamu The Tsushima Family The Apprenticeship Period

Part 2: Focusing on Notebooks and Sketches Middle and High School Notebooks Biographical Materials

Part 3: Tracing the Traces of Manuscripts and Rewrites Another World That Did Not Make it into Print "The Phoenix" / "College Humor: The Tokyo Imperial University Chapter" / "Karuta of Virtue" From Unfinished Draft to Finished Draft "Thinking of Zenzo" / "As I Heard" / "Selected Works of Ibuse Masuji" Friendship: From Calligraphy and Paintings Part 4: Sources and Materials Used in the Novel "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji" "Tengu" "Fusin'an" "Minister of the Right, Sanetomo" "Farewell"

Part 5: Shadows of War Censorship - Wartime and Postwar "Fireworks" / "Beautiful Day" / "Little Album" / "Winter Fireworks" / "Pandora's Box" Dazai Osamu and Ibuse Masuji: From Correspondence During Postwar Evacuation "Otogi Zoshi" Manuscript Revealed for the First Time

Part 6: "Shayo" and "No Longer Human" The World of "Shayo" The Creation of "No Longer Human" In Mitaka - With His Family

[Appendix] Dazai Osamu's Chronology