Ozaki Kōyō
Ozaki Kōyō was a Japanese author. His real name was Ozaki Tokutaro.Biography
Ozaki was the only son of Kokusai, a well-known netsuke carver in the Meiji period. He was educated at Tokyo Prefecture Middle School and later at Tokyo Imperial University. At university, he started publishing a literary magazine called Ken'yūsha in 1885 with some friends. Well-known writers Yamada Bimyō and Kawakami Bizan also had material published in the magazine.
Ozaki's most renowned works are The Usurer and Tajō Takon. His works mostly appeared in the Yomiuri Shimbun, the most popular newspaper in Japan. His pupil Izumi Kyōka continued to write in Ozaki's style. In 1954, The Golden Demon was made into a Japanese-language film set in Atami.
