![]() ![]() It also became clear that Dazai, who hadn’t attended school since shortly after his older brother, Keiji’s, death in 1930, would not be able to graduate. At that same time, Dazai, who had always thought of Hatsuyo as pure and innocent, came to know of her sexual history as a Geisha. After the second incident, he cut ties with the left-wing movement. Twice, he was questioned by the police about his involvement with the left-wing movement in Japan, but both times he was released almost immediately. Over the next two years (1931-1932), Dazai wrote very little. The following month, Dazai was allowed to marry Hatsuyo. Shortly thereafter, feeling isolated from Hatsuyo and disapproval from his family, Dazai attempted double suicide with Shimeko Tanabe, a waitress. Bunji agreed and returned to Aomori, taking Hatsuyo with him. Before agreeing, however, Dazai made Bunji promise that he would be allowed to eventually marry Hatsuyo. In an attempt to avoid a potential scandal, Dazai’s eldest brother, Bunji, soon arrived and made Dazai send Hatsuyo away. ![]() ![]() Hatsuyo had broken her contract and fled from Aomori to Tokyo. In 1930, while enrolled at the University of Tokyo, Dazai was visited by Koyama Hatsuyo, a Geisha whom he had known since he was in high school in Aomori. Osamu Dazai in 1928, a few years before writing The Final Years. ![]()
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