Morio Kita
Morio Kita (1927–2011) was a Japanese novelist, essayist, and psychiatrist, the son of poet and psychiatrist Mokichi Saito. He blended medical insight and humor in his works; notable titles include the family saga The House of Nire and his lighthearted autobiographical Notenki essays. He was a prominent voice in postwar Japanese literature.
Books
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1. The House Of Nire
A darkly comic family saga follows an ambitious patriarch who founds a private psychiatric clinic and propels his wife and children through his perfectionism, delusions, and hunger for status, charting the clan’s rise and decline from the Taishō era through the postwar years. Blending satire with pathos, it explores the blurry boundary between sanity and eccentricity, the compromises of professional ambition, and the strains of modernization and war, as successive generations grapple with identity, love, and survival in a rapidly changing Japan.