Hakuchō Masamune

Hakuchō Masamune
Hakuchō Masamune in 1925
Native name
正宗 白鳥
BornTadao Masamune
(1879-03-03)March 3, 1879
Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
DiedOctober 28, 1962(1962-10-28) (aged 83)
Tokyo, Japan
OccupationCritic, writer
LanguageJapanese
NationalityJapanese
GenreNaturalism

Hakuchō Masamune (正宗 白鳥, Masamune Hakuchō; 3 March 1879 28 October 1962), born Tadao Masamune, was a noted Japanese critic and writer of fiction, and a leading member of the Japanese Naturalist school of literature.