The Setting Sun

For other uses of the title, see Setting Sun (disambiguation).
The Setting Sun
Cover of first edition
AuthorOsamu Dazai
Original title斜陽
TranslatorDonald Keene
LanguageJapanese
PublisherShinchō (magazine)
Shinchōsha (book)
Publication date
1947
Publication placeJapan
Published in English
1956
Media typePrint

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.

  1. ^ "太宰治 (Dazai Osamu)". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  2. ^ Sakakibara, Richie (1999). Between the Defeat and the Constitution: Democracy in Dazai Osamu's Postwar Fiction. University of Michigan. p. 34.
  3. ^ Dazai, Osamu (1968). The Setting Sun. New York: New Directions.