Gotō Chūgai

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This is a Japanese name; the family name is Gotō.

Gotō Chūgai (後藤宙外, Gotō Chūgai^?) (23 December 1866 – 12 June 1938) was the pen-name of an essayist, novelist and literary critic active from late Meiji through early Showa period Japan. His real name was Gotō Toranosuke.

Born in the rural Senboku District of Akita prefecture, Gotō graduated from the Tokyo Semmon Gakko (present-day Waseda University). From 1900, he served as editor of the literary magazine Shishosetsu ("New Fiction"). Some of the writers who contributed to the magazine during his tenure were Hirotsu Ryuro, Izumi Kyoka, Shimazaki Toson, Natsume Soseki and Nagai Kafu. He was strongly critical of the naturalism movement, which began to become popular around that time. His works include a novel, Funikudan (1899), and a collection of essays, Hi shizen shugi (1908).