Tsuji Kunio was a novelist, playwright, literary critic, essayist, translator, and scholar from Tokyo. As a youth he was interested in literature, led haiku circles, and performed in plays. He became friends with Kita Morio at his boarding school and enrolled in Tokyo University where he studied under Watanabe Kazuo. After graduation, he wrote a dissertation on Stendhal, then taught at Rikkyo and Gakushuin universities before leaving for Paris in 1957 to study abroad. After returning from France, he made his literary debut with the novel Kairo nite (In the Corridor, 1963). He won the Tanizaki Jun’ichiro Prize for Saigyo kaden (Tales of the Poet Saigyo, 1995).
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