Tayama Katai (田山 花袋, 1872 January 22-1930 May 13, born Tayama Rokuya) was a Japanese author. Year 1872 ( MDCCCLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. This is an alphabetical list of writers who are Japanese, or are famous for having written in the Japanese language. His most famous works include Rural Teacher (田舎教師) and Futon (蒲団). He is noted for writing naturalistic I novels which revolve around the author. Naturalism is a movement in Theatre, film, and Literature that seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality, as opposed to such I-Novel (私小説 Watakushi shōsetsu or Shishōsetsu is a Literary genre in Japanese literature used to describe writing about oneself His writings are considered pseudo-autobiographical. An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write"