Apparently it was very unpopular and the editor requested the story be dropped immediately however, due to Kōyō's pleadings on the part of his young student, Kyōka was allowed to print the entire story.
Kyōka's first published work, "Yazaemon Kanmuri" ( 冠弥左衛門, Kanmuri Yazaemon), was serialized beginning in May 1893 in Kyoto's Hi no De newspaper. He felt deeply a personal indebtedness to Kōyō, and continued to admire the author throughout his life. Kyōka greatly adored his teacher, thinking of him as a teacher of more than literature, a benefactor who nourished his early career before he gained a name for himself. Other than a brief trip to Kanazawa in December of the following year, Kyōka spent all of his time in the Ozaki household, proving his value to Kōyō through correcting his manuscripts and household tasks. He was accepted, and from that time began life as a live-in apprentice. On 19 November 1891, he called on Kōyō in Ushigome ( 牛込)) (part of present-day Shinjuku) without prior introduction and requested that he be allowed into the school immediately. In November of that year, however, Kyōka's aspiration to an artistic career drove him to Tokyo, where he intended to enter the tutelage of Kōyō himself. At this time he worked as a teacher in private preparatory schools and spent his free time running through yomihon and kusazōshi. That June he took a trip to Toyama Prefecture. Kyōka was deeply impressed by Ozaki Kōyō's "Amorous Confessions of Two Nuns" and decided to pursue a career in literature. From 1891-1894 Kyōka lived with Ozaki Kōyō and performed houseboy duties for him in return for his expertise opinions on his work. In 1890, Kyōka went to Tokyo in order to follow the footsteps of Ozaki Kōyō, a literary figure of this time.
It was a great blow to his young mind, and he would attempt to recreate memories of her in works throughout his literary career. In April 1883, at nine years old, Kyōka lost his mother, who was 29 at the time. Because of his family's impoverished circumstances, he attended the tuition-free Hokuriku English-Japanese School, run by Christian missionaries.Įven before he entered grade school, young Kintarō's mother introduced him to literature in picture-books interspersed with text called kusazōshi, and his works would later show the influence of this early contact with such visual forms of story-telling. Kyōka was born Kyōtarō Izumi on Novemin the Shitashinmachi section of Kanazawa, Ishikawa, to Seiji Izumi ( 泉 清次, Izumi Seiji), a chaser and inlayer of metallic ornaments, and Suzu Nakata ( 中田 鈴, Nakata Suzu), daughter of a tsuzumi hand-drum player from Edo and younger sister to lead protagonist of the Noh theater, Kintarō Matsumoto.
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