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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] |
Tsutomu Mizukami
, also known as Tsutomu Minakami, was a Japanese writer of novels, biographies, and plays. Mizukami's major works include '' The Temple of the Wild Geese'', ''Kiga kaikyō'' and '' Bamboo Dolls of Echizen''. His writings earned him, among other awards, the Tanizaki Prize and the Naoki Prize. Biography Mizukami was born in Wakasa, Fukui Prefecture, to a poor family. In 1929, he became a novice in a Zen temple in Kyoto, moving between the branch temples. Disillusioned by the conduct of the temple's head priest, he left the temple in 1936, the same year in which he finished Middle School. Mizukami entered Ritsumeikan University in 1937, but unable to keep up with his schedule while working, he withdrew already half a year later. After World War II, during which he worked in a variety of jobs, he studied under writer Kōji Uno, and in 1948 published the autobiographical novel ''Furaipan no uta'' (lit. "Song of the frying pan"). The novel was a moderate success, but the attention ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seichō Matsumoto
was a Japanese writer, credited with popularizing detective fiction in Japan. Matsumoto's works broke new ground by incorporating elements of human psychology and ordinary life. His works often reflect a wider social context and postwar nihilism that expanded the scope and further darkened the atmosphere of the genre. His exposé of corruption among police officials and criminals was a new addition to the field. The subject of investigation was not just the crime but also the society affected. Although Matsumoto was a self-educated prolific author, his first book was not printed until he was in his forties. In the following 40 years, he published more than 450 works. Matsumoto's work included historical novels and non-fiction, but it was his mystery and detective fiction that solidified his reputation as a writer internationally. Credited with popularizing the genre among readers in his country, Matsumoto became Japan's best-selling and highest earning author in the 1960s. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bungakukai
is a Japanese monthly literary magazine published by Bungeishunjū as a oriented publication. History and profile The first version of ''Bungakukai'' was published from 1893 to 1898. The founders were the first generation romantic authors in the country. The magazine featured articles on romanticism, modernism and idealism. The magazine's second version started in October 1933. Bungeishunjū has owned the magazine since then. The headquarters of ''Bungakukai'' is in Tokyo. Along with ''Shinchō'', ''Gunzo'', '' Bungei'' and ''Subaru'', it is one of the five leading literary journals in Japan. It runs a contest Contest may refer to: * Competition * Will contest * Contesting, amateur radio contesting (radiosport) Film and television * ''Contest'' (2013 film), an American film * Contest (1932 film), a German sports film * " The Contest", a 1992 season ... for newcomer writers ''Bungakukai Shinjinshō'' ( ja, 文學界新人賞, Newcomer Award of Literary World). References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Communist Party
The is a left-wing to far-left political party in Japan. With approximately 270,000 members belonging to 18,000 branches, it is one of the largest non-governing communist parties in the world. The party advocates the establishment of a democratic society based on scientific socialism and pacificism. It believes this objective can be achieved by working within an electoral framework while carrying out an extra-parliamentary struggle against "imperialism and its subordinate ally, monopoly capital". As such, the JCP does not advocate violent revolution and instead proposes a "democratic revolution" to achieve "democratic change in politics and the economy". A staunchly antimilitarist party, the JCP firmly supports Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and aims to dissolve the Japan Self-Defense Forces. The party also opposes Japan's security alliance with the United States, viewing it as an unequal partnership and an infringement on Japanese national sovereignty. In the wake of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yumiko Kurahashi
was a Japanese writer. Her married name was , but she wrote under her birth name. Her work was experimental and antirealist, questioning prevailing societal norms regarding sexual relations, violence, and social order. Her antinovels employed pastiche, parody, and other elements typical of postmodernist writing. Early life and education Kurahashi was born in Kami, Japan, the eldest daughter of Toshio and Misae Kurahashi. Her godfather was Tokutomi Sohō, who knew her father. Her father was a family dentist in the town of Kami in Kōchi Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. After one year studying Japanese literature at the Kyoto Women's University, she moved under pressure from her father to Tokyo to obtain a certificate as a dental hygienist and for medical training. Following her completion of the requirements to take the state exam for medical practice, however, she instead entered the Department of French Literature at Meiji University, where she attended lectures by p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagami Women's University
is a private women's college in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1900 in Hongō, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ..., and was the fourth oldest women's college in Japan. It moved to its present location in Sagamihara in 1946 and was chartered as a university in 1949. References External links Official website Private universities and colleges in Japan Universities and colleges in Kanagawa Prefecture Women's universities and colleges in Japan Educational institutions established in 1900 Western Metropolitan Area University Association 1900 establishments in Japan {{kanagawa-university-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korehito Kurahara
Korehito Kurahara was a Japanese Marxist literary critic. He wrote under the name Soichiro Furukawa. Early life and education Kurahara was born in Tokyo on January 26, 1902. His father, Korehiro Kurahara, was a politician. Kurahara studied Russian at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies before going to the Soviet Union to study Russian literature in 1925. While living in Russia he worked as a special correspondent for the ''Miyako Shinbun''. Career Kurahara returned from Russia in 1926 and began writing for ''Bungei Sensen''. He joined the proletarian literature movement and began translating Marxist theories from Russian to Japanese. The proletarian literature movement at the time was struggling to decide whether political and arts organizations associated with the movement should remain separate or merge. In1928 Kurahara spearheaded the movement to merge many of the organizations into one: the . Kurahara debated Marxist theory frequently, following in the footsteps of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakano Shigeharu
was a Japanese writer and Japanese Communist Party (JCP) politician. Nakano was born in Maruoka, now part of Sakai, Fukui. In 1914 he enrolled in middle school in Fukui, Fukui, and attended high school in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa and Kanazawa, Ishikawa. In 1924 he entered the German literature department of the University of Tokyo. In 1931 he joined the Japanese Communist Party, for which he was arrested in 1934. Immediately after World War II he rejoined the party, and played a leading role in founding the JCP-affiliated literary society New Japanese Literature Association (''Shin Nihon Bungakkai''). In 1947, Nakano began a three-year term as elected representative to the government. In 1958 he was elected to the party's Central Committee, but in 1964 was expelled due to political conflicts. His autobiographical novels include ''Nami no aima'' (Between the Waves, 1930), ''Muragimo'' (In the Depths of the Heart, 1954), and ''Kō otsu hei tei'' (ABCD, 1965-1969). Nakano received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Japanese Literature Association
The , was a professional association for Japanese writers, poets, and literary critics that existed from 1945 to 2005. For many years, the association was under the influence of the Japan Communist Party, before breaking away in the 1960s. In the early postwar era, it counted large numbers of the most prominent Japanese writers and critics as members. Formation The New Japanese Literature Association was established in December 1945 by a group of Japanese writers and critics who hoped to revive the prewar "Proletarian literature" movement after years of state suppression during World War II. Led by the prominent proletarian writers Korehito Kurahara, Yuriko Miyamoto, and Shigeharu Nakano, the new association's 173 founding members also included Ujaku Akita, Kan Eguchi, Seikichi Fujimori, Tsurujirō Kubokawa, Sunao Tokunaga, and Shigeji Tsuboi. Most of these charter members had been members in the prewar Japan Proletarian Writers Federation (''Nihon Puroretaria Sakka Dōmei'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
