Doppo Kunikida

Doppo Kunikida
Kunikida in the 1890s
Born
Tetsuo Kunikida

(1871-08-30)30 August 1871
Died23 June 1908(1908-06-23) (aged 36)
Occupation
  • Writer
  • journalist
Genre
  • Poetry
  • short stories
  • novels
  • diary
Literary movementNaturalism
Spouse
  • Nobuko Sasaki
    (m. 1895; div. 1896)
  • Haruko Enomoto
    (m. 1898⁠–⁠1908)
Children5
RelativesAyumu Nakajima (great-great-grandson)

Doppo Kunikida (国木田 独歩, Kunikida Doppo; 30 August 1871 – 23 June 1908) was a Japanese author of novels and romantic poetry during the Meiji period, noted as one of the inventors of Japanese naturalism.