For other uses of the title, see Setting Sun (disambiguation).
The Setting Sun
Cover of first edition
Author
Osamu Dazai
Original title
斜陽
Translator
Donald Keene
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
Publisher
Shinchō (magazine) Shinchōsha (book)
Publication date
1947
Published in English
1956
Media type
Print
The Setting Sun (斜陽, Shayō) is a Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai first published in 1947.[1][2][3] The story centers on an aristocratic family in decline and crisis during the early years after World War II.
^"太宰治 (Dazai Osamu)". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 September 2022.
^Sakakibara, Richie (1999). Between the Defeat and the Constitution: Democracy in Dazai Osamu's Postwar Fiction. University of Michigan. p. 34.
^Dazai, Osamu (1968). The Setting Sun. New York: New Directions.
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