Famous for its oriental legends and his traditional themes that he reflects in his works, Ueda Akinari, is a recognized Japanese writer that he was born July 25, 1734. The story goes that he was the son of a woman of bad living who worked in a brothel, that is why he was put up for adoption and adopted by the Ueda family at the age of four.
This family were merchants who descended from the Minamoto dynasty, who welcomed him as a son. But even so, the idea of being an adopted son whose biological parents had forgotten him continued to haunt him.Ueda Akinari was a rather sickly little boy, at the age of five, he was ill with smallpox, a deadly disease that had no cure at that time. , This left him serious consequences such as deformed hands.
Had an poisonous languageHe was always on the defensive and was not able to be content with anything, this probably as a rejection of what was his life in childhood, a prostitute mother and an unknown father. For this reason, his adoptive parents noticed that he would not be suitable for the business, so they encouraged him to follow the literature, which was what caught his attention the most.
For this reason, at the age of twenty-two, he left the house of his adoptive parents and entered the Takai Kikei Poetic School, where he stayed from 1687 to 1760, from there he met Kato umaki of whom was his most fervent disciple.
He was a quite exciting and charming short story writer with elements that are somewhat unreal but that make the work even more interesting. Ueda Akinari began to publish his works in 1776 and the most interesting was Tales of the Moon and Rain work that gave him the prestige he desired. He has also had works whose main characters were ghosts and spirits of Chinese legends that correspond to the collection called New stories written by waking up the lamp of these stories stand out: The white summit, the promise among the chrysanthemums, Serpentine Lewdness Y Of Poverty and Wealth.
After a terrible fire in his house, where he lost everything, he decided to move to Nagara and start from scratch, he had always had a fondness for Medicine So in 1771 he decided to start that career, a few years later he began to practice successfully for thirteen years.
In the course of these years he met his wife with whom he formed a family. He spent a few quiet years practicing medicine and writing. But unfortunately at the age of fifty he lost the vision in his left eye due to this fact he left medicine and accompanied his wife to a Buddhist temple, where they both gave themselves to religious life, this helped him to write his second work from a collection of stories called Tales of the spring rains in the year 1809. At the end of his work and being already in quite deteriorated health, a August 8 of that same year.