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Suiin Emi (江見 水蔭, Emi Suiin, 17 September 1869 – 3 November 1934), born Tadanori Emi (江見 忠功, Emi Tadanori), was a Japanese novelist and journalist.^{[citation needed]}

Suiin Emi
Suiin Emi.
Born	Tadanori Emi (1869-09-17)17 September 1869 Okayama, Japan
Died	3 November 1934(1934-11-03) (aged 65) Matsuyama, Japan
Occupation	Novelist, journalist
Genre	Novels, short stories
Notable works	Nyōbō-goroshi Chitei Tanken-ki

Born in Okayama into a shizoku (former samurai) family,[1] he travelled to Tokyo to join the army but instead joined the Kenyūsha literary society and quickly became celebrated during the Sino-Japanese War for his patriotic stories in the newspaper Chūō Shinbun.[2]

A pillar of the Meiji-era literary establishment, and the editor of Kobe Shinbun and Taiheiyo[3] as well as Senshibankō[4] and Kozakuraodoshi,[1] his writing is marred for modern readers by its imperialist outlook, one example being Osero, a new version of Othello commissioned for the Otojiro Kawakami troupe and set in the Taiwan of 1903, in which the Othello figure, the governor Lt. Gen. Muro Washirō, is a Japanese burakumin who has been sent to the island to suppress a rebellion.[5]

He was the first to refer to sumo as the national sport (kokugi), inspiring the name of the Ryōgoku Kokugikan stadium built in 1909.[6] He died in Matsuyama.

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Bibliography

• Kenneth G. Henshall (ed.), Tayama Katai. Literary life in Tōkyō, 1885-1915: Tayama Katai's memoirs "Thirty years in Tōkyō." Brill Archive, 1987.
• Indra A. Levy. Sirens of the Western shore: the westernesque femme fatale, translation, and vernacular style in modern Japanese literature. Columbia University Press, 2006.

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