File:Rampo_Edogawa_02.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Film & TV
Mie, Japan
Tarō Hirai (平井 太郎 Hirai Tarō, October 21, 1894 – July 28, 1965), better known by the pseudonym Edogawa Ranpo (江戸川 乱歩), also romanized as Edogawa Rampo, was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery fiction. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the "Boy…
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- Tarō Hirai , October 21, 1894, Mie , Empire of Japan
- Died
- July 28, 1965 (1965-07-28) (aged 70)
- Occupation
- Novelist , literary critic
- Language
- Japanese
- Nationality
- Japanese
- Alma mater
- Waseda University
- Genre
- Mystery , weird fiction , thriller
- Years active
- 1923–1960
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tarō
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Nabari
- Place of death
- Ikebukuro
- Occupation
- science fiction writer
- Educated at
- Waseda University
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Native language
- Japanese
- Genre
- crime literature
- Image
- Rampo Edogawa 02.jpg
- Work location
- Japan
Show 15 more facts
- influenced by
- Shuroku Kuroiwa
- date of death
- 1965-07-28
- Commons category
- Edogawa Ranpo
- date of birth
- 1894-10-21
- place of burial
- Tama Cemetery
- writing language
- Japanese
- topic's main category
- Category:Edogawa Ranpo
- name in native language
- 平井 太郎
- cause of death
- cerebral hemorrhage
- start of work period
- 1923-00-00
- ethnic group
- Japanese people
- end of work period
- 1965-00-00
- pseudonym
- 江戸川乱歩
- name in kana
- えどがわ らんぽ
- manner of death
- natural causes
via Wikidata · CC0
~25 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Tarō Hirai (平井 太郎, Hirai Tarō; October 21, 1894 – July 28, 1965), better known by the pen name Edogawa Ranpo or Edogawa Rampo (江戸川 乱歩), was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the "Boy Detectives Club" (少年探偵団, Shōnen tantei dan).
Ranpo was an admirer of Western mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe. His pen name is a rendering of Poe's name. Other authors who were special influences on him were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whom he attempted to translate into Japanese during his days as a student at Waseda University, and the Japanese mystery writer Ruikō Kuroiwa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edogawa Ranpo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.