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Izumi Kyōka was a prolific Japanese writer who created a distinctive, often supernatural, fictional world. Kyōka was born into a family of provincial artists and artisans. He went to Tokyo in 1890, hoping to be accepted as a disciple of Ozaki Kōyō, t