RinzÅ Shiina
Shiina Rinzo (Japanese椎 名 麟 三, born October 1, 1911 Sōsamuranouchishosha, Shikama County (now Shosha Higashisaka, Himeji ), Hyōgo Prefecture, † 28 March 1973 in Setagaya- ku in the prefecture Tōkyō ) was a Japanese novelist, which was influenced by existentialism. His real name was Otsubo Noboru (大坪 升).
Life
Shiina Rinzo (now Higashisaka in Himeji ) was born as the eldest son of the policeman Otsubo Kumaji and his wife Misuno in the village in the district Sōsamuranouchishosha Shikama. Due to the circumstances of the impoverished household, whereupon Shiina Rinzo avulsion aged 14 years from home.
Shiina interrupted his studies at the middle school Himeji (now the Western High School in Himeji ) prematurely. He worked in fruit shops, as food delivery boy, trainee chef and in similar positions, he often changed the work. While working as a conductor in the power company Ujigawa Denki ( Denki today San'yo tetsudō ) worked, he joined the Communist Party of Japan. 1931 Shiina was arrested by Tokubetsu Keisatsu Kōtō and sentenced in 1933 to three years in prison. In prison he took Nietzsche's Ecce Homo as an opportunity to change his ideas. Shiina decided to turn to the literature.
1947 his first play, The Midnight Banquet (深夜 の 酒宴, Shin'ya no shuen ) was first performed. After he had read the works of Dostoevsky, Shiina is interested in Jesus Christ. He was baptized in 1950 as a Christian philosopher Akaiwa Sakae ( 1903-66 ). Consequently seemed Shiina as a Christian writer. He died March 28, 1973 at the age of 61 years.