Kiyoteru Hanada

Hanada Kiyoteru (Japanese花田 清辉; born March 29, 1909 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, † 23 September 1974) was a Japanese literary critic.

Hanada founded in 1939, the magazine Bunka Soshiki that turned against militarism in Japan. After the Second World War, he was a staff member of the magazine Kindai Bungaku and made especially to promote the avant-garde literature in Japan deserves. He became famous for the collection of anti-fascist essays which he published in 1946 under the title Fukkōki no seishin. In 1948 he founded together with taro Okamoto, the avant-garde group of artists Yoru no kai. Between 1963 and 1966 appeared Hanada Kiyotera chosaku shū, an edition of his collected works.

Source

• Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press, 2002 ( Original title: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization, translated by Käthe Roth), ISBN 0-674-00770-0, p 283 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).