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Morio Kita (北 杜夫, Kita Morio) was the pen name of Sokichi Saitō (斎藤 宗吉, Saitō Sōkichi, 1 May 1927 – 24 October 2011), a Japanese psychiatrist, novelist and essayist.[1]
Kita was the second son of poet Mokichi Saitō. Shigeta Saitō, his older brother, was also a psychiatrist. The essayist Yuka Saitō is Kita's daughter.[2][3]
Kita attended Azabu High School and Matsumoto Higher School (now part of Shinshu University), and graduated from Tohoku University's School of Medicine.[4] He initially worked as a doctor at Keio University Hospital. Motivated by the collections of his father's poems and the books of German author Thomas Mann, he decided to become a novelist.
Kita suffered from manic–depressive disorder from middle age onwards.[5]
- ^ Novelist-essayist "Morio Kita dies at 84" Archived 28 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Novelist-essayist Morio Kita dies at 84". The Mainichi Daily News. 26 October 2011. Archived from the original on 18 February 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
- ^ Lecture of Morio Kita and Yuka Saitō in Hokuto, Yamanashi, March 13, 2010 (in Japanese)
- ^ 【旧制高校 寮歌物語】（６）教授にウケた北杜夫の珍答案 (in Japanese). Sankei Shimbun. 9 September 2012. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- ^ 【北杜夫さん死去】重厚な純文学と、ユーモア作品が同居 (in Japanese). Sankei Shimbun. 26 October 2011. Archived from the original on 30 November 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2012.