Famous People with Name Shimei

Futabatei Shimei            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Futabatei Shimei: was a Japanese author, translator, and literary critic. Born Hasegawa Tatsunosuke (??????) in Edo (now Tokyo), Futabatei's works are in the realist style popular in the mid- to late-19th century. His work Ukigumo (Floating Clouds, 1887) is widely hailed as Japan's first modern novel.After quitting his studies at the Russian language department at the Tokyo Foreign Language School (???????|Tokyo Gaikokugo Gakko)[1] in protest over administrative restructuring, Futabatei published the literary criticism Shosetsu Soron at the encouragement of the critic and author Tsubouchi Shoyo in 1886. Futabatei's first novel Ukigumo was never finished, but its realist style strongly influenced fellow authors in his day. Futabatei was accomplished in Russian and translated the work of Ivan Turgenev and other Russian realists into Japanese.