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Ken Hirano
was the pen name of a prominent Japanese literary critic and longtime professor of literature at Meiji University. His real name was . Hirano was one of the seven founders of the journal ''Kindai Bungaku'' ("Modern Literature"), and played a starring role in the "politics and literature debates" of the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the "pure literature debate" of the early 1960s. In 1977, he was awarded the prestigious Imperial Prize from the Japan Art Academy. Early life and education Ken Hirano was born Akira Hirano in Kyoto, Japan on October 30, 1910. His father was a Buddhist monk who wrote literary criticism on the side. When he was five years old, Hirano's family moved to Gifu prefecture, where he grew up. As a teenager, Hirano refused his father's wish that he follow in his footsteps and become a monk, and instead enrolled in Eighth High School in Nagoya, where he was classmates with Shūgo Honda and Shizuo Fujieda. In 1930, Hirano enrolled at Tokyo Imperial University, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masahito Ara
Masahito is a male Japanese name, that has been used for members of The Japanese Imperial Family. Although written romanized the same way, the kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ... can be different. Masahito may refer to: * , later Emperor Go-Shirakawa (後白河天皇) * , eldest son of Emperor Ōgimachi (正親町天皇) *, the youngest son of Emperor Shōwa of Japan *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese rugby union player {{given name Japanese masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jun Etō
was the pen name of a Japanese literary critic, active in the Shōwa and early Heisei periods of Japan. His real name was . Early life Etō was born in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo; his father was a banker, and his grandfather (originally from Saga in Kyūshū) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. His mother died when he was four years old, and always sickly as a child, he was mostly educated at home. He had an interest in literature from an early age, ranging from the heavy works of Jun'ichirō Tanizaki and Fyodor Dostoevsky, to the comics of Suihō Tagawa. In 1942, he was sent to boarding school in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture. While in Kamakura, his family's house in Tokyo was destroyed during the American air raids. In the immediate postwar era, he went to high school in Fujisawa, Kanagawa prefecture, where he developed a friendship with future Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, who was one year ahead of him. He later returned to Tokyo, and eventually g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |