KenjirÅ Tokutomi
Tokutomi Roka (Japanese徳 冨 芦花; born October 25, 1868 in Minamata, † September 18, 1927 ), actually Tokutomi Kenjiro (徳 冨 健 次郎), was a Japanese writer of the Meiji and Taishō period.
Life
Tokutomi Roka was born on 25 October 1868 as the second son of the scholar and country Samurai Tokutomi Kazutaka, a pupil of Yokoi Shonan, in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture. His older brother was the thinker, historian and journalist Tokutomi Soho.
As a teenager, he attended the Kyoto Dōshisha School ( the forerunner of today's Dōshisha University) and was baptized during a temporary return to Kumamoto. Later, he continued to visit the Dōshisha school continued, but then went blamed for Zugetanheit the niece of Niijima Jō, by Tōkyō. There he participated in the run by his brother Publishing Min'yūsha and wrote articles for the newspapers club Kokumin no Tomo and Kokumin Shimbun. With his novel Hototogisu (不如 帰, dt " Gackelkuckuck " ), he became famous overnight.
When his brother Soho occasion of the Sino-Japanese War his ideological position of the liberal-democratic nationalist wing back shifted, Roka in 1903 ended his career at Min'yūsha -Verlag. He has published at his own expense Kuroshio (黒 潮), which he with the Kokubetsu no ji section (告別 の 辞, " farewell speech " ) in which he announced his separation from his brother started.
Later he suffered during an ascent of Mount Fuji blackouts and experienced in the course of the recovery process, as he wrote, a "rebirth". He undertook a pilgrimage to Palestine and visited Tolstoy. After that he worked as a sideline as a farmer and came to idiosyncratic religious beliefs more and more.
Works
- Hototogisu (不如 帰, dt " Gackelkuckuck ").
- Kaijin (灰烬, dt " rubble ").
- Kuroi me to chairo no me (黒い 目 と 茶色 の 目, dt " Black eyes and brown eyes ").
- Omoide no ki (思出 の 記, dt " memoirs ").
- Shizen to jinsei (自然 と 人生, dt " Nature and Life" ).
- Kuroshio (黒 潮, dt "black stream ", " Kuroshio ").
- Yadorigi (寄生 木, dt " Mistletoe ").
- Mimizu no tawakoto (みみず の たは こと, dt "Stupid earthworm talk ").