MAIN > Tourist Spots > Former Residence of Naoya Shiga   Naoya Shiga was a very famous author who left Tokyo in November 1912, partly because of a rift with the Shirakaba school, and also because of frictions with his father. He moved to Onomichi, which a friend recommended to him.   He described his house very well in “Journey On A Dark Night”, saying that it was "a modest thing, the last of three terraced houses with a small room and a smaller kitchen."   It is said that, in order to keep warm, Shiga borrowed a gas stove from the gas company and that his gas bill was the second most expensive in the whole city.   In a one of Japanese modern literature's most celebrated works, he writes "how splendid the view is from my house, from which one can see the shipyard and the quarry on the far side of the Onomichi Channel." Naoya Shiga   Born in Miyagi Prefecture, he lived on the mountainside of Mt. Senkoji for two years, from 1912 to 1914. In 1922, be began his greatest work, “Journey On A Dark Night,” which was finally completed in 1937. The temporary residence in which he lived while in Onomichi is still in existence today. Back
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