Portrait photo of Akutagawa

From left to right: Joe Matsuoka, Masao Kume, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, and Shoichi Naruse. Around 1916.

Photo taken in Nagasaki 1919. Hiroshi Kikuchi is on the left, and next to him is Akutagawa.

Akutagawa's famous pose.

Akutagawa and oldest son, Hiroshi.

Akutagawa and his wife, Fumi, and their two oldest sons, Hiroshi and Takashi.

Akutagawa and his sons, Hiroshi and Takashi, 1927

Akutagawa, 1927

Akutagawa holds his oldest son, Hiroshi, 1927

Hokyonin no shi manuscript page, 1918

"Horse Legs" manuscript page, 1925

Ayatsuji and Asagiri Kafka in 2019 when Ayatsuji won the 22nd Japan Mystery Literature Award

Dazai Osamu, February 1948

Dazai Osamu, age 5

A young Dazai Osamu (the picture described in the beginning of No Longer Human resembles this photograph)

Dazai Osamu, around 1924

Taken around 1928

At the bar Lupin on the Ginza, 1946

Dazai with his daughter, Sonoko, and his son, Masaki.

Dazai copying Akutagawa's famous pose

Dazai and his first wife, Hatsuyo

Dazai, his second wife, Michiko, and their daughter, Yuuko

Dazai Osamu (left) and Ibuse Masuji (right)

Dazai and Tomie's bodies discovered in 1948

Dazai giving a speech at the Tokyo University of Commerce

Dazai's mistress, and the inspiration for The Setting Sun, Ota Shizuko, and Dazai and Shizuko's daughter, Haruko

Dazai's mistress, Yamazaki Tomie, who committed suicide with Dazai in 1948

Dazai Osamu (left) and Ibuse Masuji (right)

Ibuse Masuji (left) and Dazai Osamu (right)

Left to right: Ima Harube, Koyama Yuushi, Dazai Osamu, Ibuse Masuji

Dazai Osamu (left), Ibuse Masuji (right)

A statue of Take-san, Dazai's childhood nurse, and Dazai Osamu-sensei 

A statue of Dazai Osamu in by the lakeside in Kanagi under the cherry blossoms 

No Longer Human manuscript

A page from the No Longer Human manuscript

An English composition assignment that Dazai wrote in 1927

DAZAI Osamu, “Landscape” oil painting, circa 1940  

Ranpo, age 3, and his family.

This image is from the first video taken of Ranpo.

Edogawa Ranpo, pointed out in the back row, around 1917 when he worked at the Toba Shipyard.

Edogawa Ranpo, October 13, 1954

Edogawa Ranpo, far left, with his family in the Ranpo House in Toshima-ku, Tokyo, May 1958.

Edogawa Ranpo reading a book to his grandson, around 1960.

Photo taken around 1891. It became the original picture for the 10,000 Yen bank note in Japan.

Fukuzawa Yukichi, 1862

Fukuzawa Yukichi and the American girl Theodora Alice Shaw, 1860. While visiting America, he took this photo with the photographer's daughter.

Photo taken in 1862 Berlin while Fukuzawa was visiting Europe as an Edo Shogunate ambassador.

Photo taken in the Netherlands, 1862. From left to right: Sakutaro Fukuda, Genzaburo Ota, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Shibata Sada Taro.

Fukuzawa Yukichi, 1887.

Fukuzawa Yukichi, 1901.

Fukuzawa and his wife, 1900.

Fukuzawa and his sons, 1872.

Calligraphy done by Fukuzawa

Higuchi portrait

Higuchi Sisters, Kuniko (left) and Ichiyo (right)

Ichiyo (right) and her friend Minoko Tanaka (left), taken in February 1891

From left to right: Kuniko, their mother Taki, and Ichiyo

The cover of Higuchi's "Takerube" (Growing Up) handwritten manuscript

The first page of the full-length  handwritten manuscript for "Takerube". The mansucript's value is estimated to be between 10 and 15 million USD.

From left to right: Kyōka, their grandmother, and his brother Toyoharu

Kyōka at the desk in his study

Izumi Kyōka's rabbit figurines

Chumoncho handwritten manuscript

A letter from Izumi Kyōka to Ozaki Kōyō

Kajii Motojirou, January 2, 1931

Left to right: Kajii, Takao Nakatani, and Shigeru Sotomura

「秘やかな楽しみ」handwritten manuscript

A page from "The Story of Seyama" handwritten manuscript

Kunikida sitting on the porch with his children

A page from Kunikida's handwritten diary

Ayatsuji Yukito (left) and Kyogoku Natsuhiko (right)

Mishima (19 years old) and his sister, Mitsuko (16 years old). September 9, 1944

Mishima Yukio with an onnagata kabuki actor 

Mishima, age 30, in the garden of his home, 1955

Mishima and Shintaro Ishihara on the roof of the Bungei Shunju Building in Ginza, February 1956

Mishima giving a speech on November 25, 1970 right before his suicide

Miyazawa Kenji, January 12, 1924

Miyzawa Kenji (age 5), on the right, and his brother Toshi (age 3), New Years 1902

Kenji in junior high school

Kenji while attending Morioka High School of Agriculture and Forestry

Kenji, back right, while attending Morioka High School

Kenji while teaching at Hinuki Agricultural School

Miyazawa Kenji in front of a blackboard at Hinuki County Agricultural School, 1922

Kenji during his time as a teacher

Mori Ogai, 1916

Mori's miscellaneous millitary notes. He wrote entries in German, but there are also entries in French.

Nakahara, age 16

Nakahara at his wedding, age 26

Nakahara with his oldest son, Fumiya

Photo taken in 1908

Nakahara Chuuya and his father, 1907

Nakahara Chuuya with is parents, age 3

Chuuya, five years old, on the right, and his younger brother Tsuguro on the left.

Photo taken in 1914

Handwritten manuscript for the poem "Spring"

Atsushi ith his wife and oldest son.

Atsushi, in the middle, with his sister, Sumiko, Atsushi's father, and Takeshi.

Nakajima Atsushi (crouching on the right) at a New Year's party with the magazine club in 1937

Nakajima Atsushi and his students in 1937

Nakajima Atsushi (second from the left) with his colleagues in 1938

Nakajima Atsushi in the school yard around 1938

Nakajima Atsushi and his students

Nakajima Atsushi, 1940, kneeling in the bottom right.

Yokohama High School graduate Class of 1942 (the last photo taken of Nakajima-sensei before he passed away)

One of Nakajima Atsushi's handwritten manuscripts

A kanji test Nakajima-sensei gave to his students

Soseki around age 5 or 6

Soseki while attending the Imperial University (December 1892)

Soseki, when he was a high school teacher, March of 1894

Soseki when he was a junior high school teacher, March of 1896

A farewell photo taken in July 1900 in Kumamoto City before Soseki (bottom right) went to study literature in England

Soseki in his study at his Sendagi House (1906)

Soseki at his house in Waseda-Minamicho (July 1915)

Soseki around the age of 11 or 12

Soseki (1886)

Soseki (1891); taken to commemorate Mt. Fuji

Soseki in front of Daiichi High School (February 1907)

Soseki in his study room in Sanbou (1914)

Handwritten Manuscript for
道草 (Grass on the Wayside)

Oda Sakunosuke at Jiyuken (Freedom House) curry restaurant in Osaka

Oda Sakunosuke, 1945

Oda Sakunosuke, 1946

Oda Sakunosuke, 1945

Oda Sakunosuke, 1947

A widely publicized photograph showed Oda injecting philopon into his arm with a hypodermic needle 

Sakaguchi Ango writing at home, 1946

Sakaguchi Ango listening to the Chatterley trial, January 18, 1952

Ango in the bar Lupin, 1946

Ango with his son and collie dog.

Sakaguchi Ango as the starting pitcher for the first postwar literary baseball tem, 1949

Sakaguchi Ango drinking at a party, 1952

Sakaguchi Ango and his wife, Michio

Drinking カッポ酒 (Kappo Sake) in December 1954

Also in December 1954, Sakaguchi Ango on his trip to Miyazaki

Sakaguchi Ango, 1955, reading through 「富山の薬と越後の毒消し」

Sakaguchi Ango, at Cape Muroto, February 1955; he died four days later

Sakaguchi Ango and his wife, Michiyo

Skaguchi Ango and his son, Tsunao

Sakaguchi Ango's handwritten manuscript

「肝臓先生」 raw manuscript

A letter written by Sakaguchi Ango

Mishima Yukio and Shibusawa Tatsuhiko, May 8, 1965

Shibusawa Tatsuhiko and his wife, Maekawa

Tachihara on the veranda, 1937

Tanizaki, January 1, 1951

Tanizaki (left) and Inazō Nitobe (right), 1908

Tanizaki, 1913

Tanizaki and his second wife, Tomiko

Tanizaki and his daughter, Ayuko (1938)

Tanizaki and his third wife, Matsuko

Tanizaki and his third wife, Matsuko

Tanizaki and his first wife, Ishikawa Chiyoko

Michiko, the model for the character Naomi

Tanizaki and his daughter, Ayuko

Tanizaki (1927)

Tanizaki playing the shamisen

Left to right: Hasegawa Tenkei, Tayama Katai, Kunikida Doppo, Kawakami Bizan, Oguri Fuyo, Kanbara Ariake (February 1930)

Formal portrait of Ueda Akinari, on silk, made in 1786 by Tosa Hidenobu. (Nara, Tenri Central Library.)

Yosano portrait photograph

Yosano Akiko, 1938

Yumeno Kyusaku, age 32 (1921)

A page of manuscript from
『ドグラ・マグラ』 (Dogura Magura)

Dazai Osamu

Edogawa Ranpo

Fukuchi Ouchi

Fukuzawa Yukichi

Izumi Kyouka

Kunikida Doppo

Miyazawa Kenji

Mori Ogai

Nakahara Chuuya

Nakajima Atsushi

Natsume Souseki

Oda Sakunosuke

Oguri Mushitarou

Sakaguchi Ango

Shibusawa Tatsuhiko

Suehiro Tetcho

Tachihara Michizou

Taneda Santouka

Tanizaki Jun'ichirou

Yosano Akiko