This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos You may not upload any more photos to this memorial Most of his works were made into movies by prominent directors, including Shiro Toyoda and Heinosuke Gosho.

After the World War II he continued wriitng novels, including 'Seso' (1946) and 'Keiba' (1946), before succumbing to tuberculosis the following year.

He published a variety of novels, including 'Nijusai' (1941), 'Seishun no gyakusetsu' (1941) and 'Wagamachi' (1942) in which he depicted the life of ordinary people of Osaka. A native of the Osaka area of Japan, he began writing after completing teachers' college. Most of his works were made into movies by prominent directors, including Shiro Toyoda and Heinosuke Gosho.Īuthor. The photograph shows Oda apparently writing while seated at a table in Jiyuken.Author. The inscription says that Oda has died, but has left us some of the good flavor of curry rice in his writing. Jiyuken opened as a coffee and snack shop in 1910, and has become known for its style of 'curry rice'. An autographed photograph of Oda hangs in the Osaka restaurant Jiyuken. It is awarded annually to an outstanding work of fiction by a new author. In 1983, under the sponsorship of the Osaka Bungaku Shinkokai, a literary prize was established in Oda's name to commemorate the 70th anniversary of his birth and with the aim of carrying on the long tradition of Kansai literature. Hozenji Yokocho and its surrounding alleys are one of the main settings in Meoto Zenzai. In 1963, a monument was erected by Oda's friends and colleagues near Hozenji Temple in Osaka. In 1947, after suffering from a lung hemorrhage, Oda died in Tokyo Hospital. In addition to his fiction, Oda wrote many critical essays, most notably 'Kanosei no bungaku' (The Literature of Possibility, 1946). Oda also wrote radio drama scenarios and submitted a script to a magazine that was later made into the film 'Kaette kita otoko' (The Returnee, 1944), by Kawashima Yuzo (it was the director's commercial debut). The following year, Oda published 'Meoto Zenzai'. In 1939, his story 'Zokushu' was a candidate for the Akutagawa Prize. A native of Osaka, he wrote mostly of life in that city and the customs and manners of the common people there. Oda’s writing career spans both prewar and postwar Japan. Sakunosuke Oda studied at the Third Higher School in Kyoto without graduating from it. He opposed Shishosetsu, or autobiographical novels, and advocated a 'literature of possibility.' Written at a time when writing was difficult because of the war, it was a novel descriptive of contemporary morals and manners. His debut as writer was made with his novel, Myoto Zenzai (1940).

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