Shunro Oshikawa

Shunro Oshikawa

Original Name 押川 春浪
Birth Name Masanori Oshikawa (押川 方存)
Born March 21, 1876
Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan
Died November 16, 1914 (38)
Tokyo, Japan

Oshikawa had a difficult time in school, often failing courses or dropping out to pursue leisure activities. He was inspired to pursue writing by The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the works of Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas. He published the first in the Undersea Warship series in 1900; the novels would later serve as the basis for Toho’s sci-fi film Atragon (1963) and the 1996 OAV Super Atragon.

Oshikawa edited a pictorial magazine during the Russo-Japanese War from 1904 through 1908. After the war he discontinued the pictorial and became chief editor of the Adventure World magazine, through which he published several of his own stories in addition to submissions from up and coming adventure authors.

His later career was marked by disputes with his publishers, drinking, and an overall decline in the quality of his output. Oshikawa died relatively young at age 38 from pneumonia.

Original Name 押川 春浪
Birth Name Masanori Oshikawa (押川 方存)
Born March 21, 1876
Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan
Died November 16, 1914 (38)
Tokyo, Japan

Oshikawa had a difficult time in school, often failing courses or dropping out to pursue leisure activities. He was inspired to pursue writing by The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the works of Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas. He published the first in the Undersea Warship series in 1900; the novels would later serve as the basis for Toho’s sci-fi film Atragon (1963) and the 1996 OAV Super Atragon.

Oshikawa edited a pictorial magazine during the Russo-Japanese War from 1904 through 1908. After the war he discontinued the pictorial and became chief editor of the Adventure World magazine, through which he published several of his own stories in addition to submissions from up and coming adventure authors.

His later career was marked by disputes with his publishers, drinking, and an overall decline in the quality of his output. Oshikawa died relatively young at age 38 from pneumonia.