HakuchÅ Masamune
Masamune Hakucho (Japanese正宗 白鸟, real name: Masamune Tadao (正宗 忠 夫), born March 3, 1879 in Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, † October 28, 1962 ) was a Japanese critic, novelist and playwright and a leading proponent of Japanese Naturalism ( Shizenshugi ).
Life
Hakucho was the eldest son of浦 二and mine? Masamune (美 祢) born. He comes from a family who were then also timber merchants over many generations and fishing with his great-grandfather. His parents were wealthy landowners thereby. After finishing school at the Shizutani Gakko (闲 谷 学校), he attended from 1896 Tokyo Senmon Gakko (now Waseda University). Under the influence of Uemura Masahisa and Uchimura kanzo he was baptized and became a Christian. Although he was enrolled of History and English, he made in 1901 with a degree in Literature. Subsequently, he worked in the publishing department of Waseda University and then for the Yomiuri Shimbun.
In 1908 he left the Yomiuri Shimbun, to devote himself full time to writing. In 1911 he married a native of Kofu woman named Tsune? (つ 禰).
In 1935, he founded the order of the Department of Cultural Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs with Shimazaki Toson and Tokuda Shusei the Japanese PEN Center, which he chaired from 1943 to 1947. Died in 1962 at the age of 83 years Hakucho of pancreatic cancer.
Of his six brothers and three sisters are also known to the younger brother and painter Masamune Tokusaburo (正宗 得 三郎), the Kokugakusha Masamune Atsuo (正宗 敦夫) and the botanist Masamune GENKEI (正宗 厳 敬).