Naoe Kinoshita

Kinoshita Naoe (Japanese木 下 尚 江; born September 8, 1869 in Matsumoto, † November 5, 1937 ) was a Japanese writer.

Kinoshita worked after graduating from the Tokyo College (now Waseda University as a journalist and lawyer in Nagano. He converted to Christianity and was due to his support of women's rights movement in jail. 1899, employees of the newspaper Mainichi Shimbun in Tokyo., He began to advocate social issues, in particular the position of the copper miners to take an interest, and was a 1901 addition to Abe Isoo, Katayama Sen, Kawakami Kiyoshi, Kōtoku shusui and Nishikawa Kojiro of the founders of the rapidly forbidden Shakai Minshutō ( " social Democratic Party"). Starting from 1903 he was a member of the socialist magazine Heimin Shimbun, which was co-founded by Kōtoku.

In 1904 he wrote, coined by his Christian Socialists attitude antiwar novel Hi no hashira, which was banned in 1910 during the Russo -Japanese War. In 1905 he joined the elections in Japan unsuccessfully as a Socialist candidate. After the Heimin Shimbun had been banned in the same year, he became a member of the Christian- socialist journal Shin Kigen. He has authored more socialist and pacifist embossed novels like Ryōjin no Jihaku; at the age he turned to attempts by the association of Christianity and Buddhism in seiza.

Swell

  • Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press, 2002 ( Original title: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization, translated by Käthe Roth), ISBN 0-674-00770-0, p 524 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • Janet Hunter: " Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History", University of California Press, 1984, ISBN 978-0-520-04390-9, p 93
  • John Scott Miller: "Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater", Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-5810-7, page 53
  • Author
  • Novel, epic
  • Journalist
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Born in 1869
  • Died in 1937
  • Man
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