His success as a writer was brought to a halt when his idol, a writer called Ryunosuke Akutagawa, killed himself in the year 1927. He even published Cell Literature with his friends, and subsequently became a staff member of the college’s newspaper team. Starting around 1928 Tsushima edited a series of student publications and contributed a few of his own works. Tsushima developed an interest in Edo culture and started studying gidayu, a form of chanted narration used in the puppet theaters. His dad died of lung cancer on Maand a month later, he attended Aomori High School, followed by entering Hirosaki University’s literature department in 1927. In 1916, he started his education at Kanagi Elementary. They quickly rose in prominence and power and, after a bit of time, they became highly respected across the region. The Tsushima family was from obscure peasant origins, with Dazai’s great-grandpa amassing the family’s wealth as a moneylender, and his son increasing it further. When he was born, the large, newly finished Tsushima mansion where he’d spend his early years was the home to around thirty family members. Osamu Dazai was born Jin Kanagi, Aomori and was the eighth surviving child of a wealthy landowner in a remote corner of Japan at the Northern tip of Tohoku.
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