Japanese literary genre known as the I Novel — although in fact Futon is largely recounted in the third person. (In January 1909, Okada was disinherited by her family, and Tayama adopted her as a daughter.) In 1907 he embarked instead on an affair with a geisha named Yone Iida (1889-?); this experience was unhappy, and punctuated by the deaths of friends and family members, with the result that his later works take on an obscure, pessimistic and religious tone. After the Great Kantō earthquake, Katai provided Iida with a place to stay because her house was destroyed in the disaster. This period of his relationship is covered in the novel One Hundred Nights (Momoyo, 1927). He continued to write until his death from throat cancer in 1930. Bibliography The quilt and other stories. Translated and with an introduction by Kenneth G. Henshall. University of Tokyo Press, 1981. A soldier shot to death. Translated and with an introduction by Kenshiro Homma. Yamaguchi Shoten, 1982. Country teacher: a novel. Translated by Kenneth Henshall. University of Hawaii Press, 1984. Literary life in Tōkyō, 1885-1915: Tayama Katai's memoirs "Thirty years in Tōkyō." Translated and introduced by Kenneth G. Henshall. Brill, 1987. External links Katai Tayama's grave Japanese writers 1872 births 1930 deaths War correspondents of the Russo-Japanese War