Osamu Dazai

What was Osamu Dazai’s Real name?

• Gen’emon Tsushima

• Shuji Tsushima

• Tane Tsushima

• Osamu Dazai is his real name.

• Kiye Tsushima

Answer explanation

Gen’emon was his Father, Tane was his mother, and Kiye was his Aunt. Osamu Dazai is no more than his pseudonym/Pen name.

What was Osamu Dazai’s Most popular two books?

• The Setting Sun

• Schoolgirl

• The Flowers of Buffoonery

• No Longer Human

• Run Melos!

What did Osamu Dazai want to be?

• Writer

• Politician

• Artist

• Poet

Osamu Dazai was a…..

• Author and Novelist

• Artist and Painter

• Politician and Landowner

• Author and Poet

At what age did he die?

• 31

• 32

• 36

• 38

• 39

What was Dazai Osamu’s first book

• “Ningan Shikaku” (No Longer Human)

• "Gyofukuki"  (Transformation)

• "Ressha” (Train)

• "Dōke no hana," (Flowers of Buffonery)

• “Saibō Bungei”

  (Cell Literature)

Which of these titles are written by Osamu Dazai?

• “Watashi wa nekodesu”

  (I Am a Cat)

• “Hoshi no kawa”

  (River of stars)

• “Prestupleniye i nakazaniye” (Crime and Punishment)

• “Kogane no akuma”

  (The golden Demon)

• "Bannen" (Declining Years)

Answer explanation

I am a Cat (1905-1906) Natume Sōseki

River of Stars (1997) Yosano Akiko

Crime and Punishment (1866) Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Golden Demon (1897) Ozaki Kōyō

He was born in ___ and died in ___?

• 13 April 1906 - 19 March

• 4 February 1923 – 12 December 1962

• 19 June 1909 – 13 June 1948

• 8 October 1904 - 21 October 1951

Answer explanation

I made up all those other number <3