斉藤宗吉というと少々重々しい。作家北社夫さんの本名である。偉大な歌人である父茂吉は意子宗吉に医者になってほしかった。日頃「文学なんか絶対にやらせんリ！」と言っていたそうだ。
父や世間の目をごまかすために学生時代、筆名で詩や小説を発表した。トーマス・マン（作家名）に耽溺していた宗吉さんは、マンの小説「トニオ・クレーゲル」から「杜ニ夫（とにお）」としてみた。変だから、とにを外して社夫にした。姓は北国にいたから。実名の平岡公でなぐ、三島由紀夫という筆名にしたのも両親の配慮だった。デビュ一が旧制中学時代で恩師らの判断だった。編集会議をしたのが三島駅辺だったから姓を「三島」に、近くに見える富士山から「ゆき」を発想したという。
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The name Saitou Soukichi sounds somewhat formal. It is the real name of the writer Kita Morio-san. His father Mokichi, a great tanka poet, wanted his son Soukichi to become a doctor. He is said to have often declared, “I will absolutely never let him get involved in literature!”
To keep his father and the public from knowing, Soukichi published poetry and novels under a pen name while he was a student. Soukichi-san, who was deeply absorbed in Thomas Mann, tried taking “Tonio” from Mann’s novel “Tonio Kröger” and rendering it as “Tonio.” Since it seemed strange, he removed the “toni” part and made it Morio. The surname “Kita” came from the fact that he was in the north. The decision to use the pen name Mishima Yukio instead of the real name Hiraoka Kou was also made out of consideration for his parents. He made his debut while still attending an old-system middle school, and the decision was made by his former teachers and others. It is said that because the editorial meeting was held near Mishima Station, “Mishima” was chosen as the surname, while the nearby view of Mount Fuji inspired “yuki.”
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