1907, biological mother died.
1908, father Ichiro remarried.
1909, entered the East Kawasaki General Primary School.
19 15, entered Kobe No.2 Middle School (now Hyogo High School in Hyogo Prefecture).
19 18, the second brother goro died.
1920 Graduated from Kobe No.2 Middle School in March and worked in Kobe Branch of the First Bank.
192 1 entered osaka college of pharmacy (the predecessor of pharmacy department of osaka university), and his first work was published in new youth in April. On September 27th, eldest brother Song passed away.
1924 graduated from osaka pharmaceutical university.
1927, became the editor-in-chief of New Youth at the age of 25. Before he took office, New Youth had become a professional magazine of mystery literature. After he took over, he accepted modernism, introduced overseas works and injected modern literary trends in Europe and America, making New Youth the most avant-garde modern magazine in Japan. Later, he was transferred to the editor-in-chief of Literature Society and Detective Fiction.
1929, my father passed away.
At the age of 30, he quit his editing job and wanted to concentrate on writing, but he got tuberculosis from overwork and coughed up blood. After a three-year break, I re-entered the literary world. His representative works before the war, such as Jack-o 'lantern, Warehouse and Wax Man, are full of strong aestheticism. During World War II, the Japanese government once banned the publication of mystery novels, and the ban was lifted after the war.
1946 took the lead in publishing two long mystery novels, kill array and Kill the Butterfly, which greatly improved the level of japanese mystery and shortened the gap with Europe and the United States, thus changing the mainstream trend of modified mystery novels before the war (in a narrow sense, modified mystery novels refer to mystery-solving novels, while in a broad sense, it includes fantasy, science fiction and horror novels).
From 65438 to 0957, realistic literature of social school headed by Seicho Matsumoto rose. Seishi Yokomizo once stopped writing, lived in seclusion and became a government, and his writing dropped sharply. At that time, there were only some reprints of humanoid Zuo Qi left in the bookstore. . However, if the works of mystery novels are too realistic, they will inevitably become popular novels, so the idea of "Romantic Revival" came into being, thus re-evaluating Seicho Matsumoto's previous mystery novels, advocating the creative route of neo-romanticism, and establishing the basic point of mystery literary criticism.
During the period of 1968, Eight Tombs Village comics were produced by Talk Club magazine "Weekly Youth Magazine", which became a remarkable opportunity for serialization (painting: Sakuramaruya). At the same time, the heretical literature of Edgar Watt Lapoul and Tom Meinong has also become a trend. In the early 1970s, Toastmasters published the complete works of Yokogawa's original works (full 10 volume). Yokogawa's popularity has recovered. The film industry is also aiming at this phenomenon.
As a result, the film "The Dog God Family" starring Koji Ishizaka and adapted from Yokogawa's novel of the same name was released, and the TV series starring Ikk? Furuya was broadcast daily, making Yokogawa's mystery novels widely known among mystery novel lovers. Crossing the 70-year-old hurdle, his life was disrupted because of the surge in invitations and amazing workload.
In fact, later writing activities, such as the masquerade, the tragedy of the lost village based on short stories, the last case of Jin Tianyi Xiaofu, the house hanging on the slope of the hospital, and the island of evil spirits against Queen ellery's village, published four volumes of Masquerade in the 1970s. Under the influence of social photography, they refrained from touching the truth. The two volumes conform to the trend and emphasize strange colors. Ghost Island contains some modern colors, as well as the factors of the author's style change in his later years.
198 1 65438+died of colon cancer on February 28th at the age of 79.