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Uno Kōji



Kōji Uno (宇野 浩二 Uno Kōji?, July 26, 1891 - September 21, 1961) was a noted Japanese novelist and short story writer.

Uno was born in Fukuoka to parents of Samurai origin. His grandfather was a police captain and his father a teacher. After his father's death when Uno was four, his family lost all their savings speculating in the stock market. When Uno was eight, he was sent to live with his grandmother and an uncle in Sōemonchō as his mother became a waitress. There he lived, beside the Dōtonbori entertainment district, among geisha, prostitutes, wig-makers, and gamblers, as he attended Rikugun elementary school from 1899-1901. He attended Tennōji middle school, where he learned to read English and acquired a taste for Nikolai Gogol's fictio ...more

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