Background
Daisui Sugitani was born on August 21, 1874 in Tottori Prefecture, Japan.
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Daisui Sugitani was born on August 21, 1874 in Tottori Prefecture, Japan.
He graduated from Tottori Middle School. He studied at Tokyo Technical College (now known as Waseda University), but stopped due to ill health.
Daisui Sugitani taught at a primary school. He worked at a publishing company and did influential editorial work on Japanese text books for elementary schools.
He wrote the libretto for Yuya (a famous Noh play), the first Japanese-language opera which was produced at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo. He also wrote about 60 songs, the most well-known being Hoshi no Yo translated many books including Arabian Nights and children's books.