Shimaki Kensaku

Shimaki Kensaku (Japanese岛 木 健 作, civil: Kikuo Asakura (朝 仓 菊 雄), born September 7, 1903 in Sapporo, † August 17, 1945 ) was a Japanese writer.

Shimaki participated in 1918 in the literary magazine Kunugi no Mi (櫟 の 実) and published tankas and essays under the name Asakura Tengai (朝 仓 天涯). From 1925 he studied at the Imperial University of Tohoku. To finance his studies, he had to work on his strength and pulled out to a tuberculosis.

He left the university and joined the Japanese labor movement. In 1927 he became a member of the Communist Party. On the basis of the peacekeeping law, he was from 1928 to 1932, with interruptions in custody.

His experiences in prison he worked in the much-acclaimed novel Rai ( " leprosy, leprosy " ), which appeared in installments in the literary journal Bungaku Hyoron (文学 评论) 1934. Until his death at the age of 41 years appeared in rapid succession several more novels.

Works (selection)

  • Rai (癞; 1934)
  • Mōmoku (盲目; 1934)
  • Goku (狱; 1934)
  • Reimei (黎明)
  • Saiken (再 建; 1937)
  • Seikatsu no Tankyū (生活 の 探求; 1937)
  • Manshu Kiko (満 洲 纪行; 1940)
  • Ishizue (础; 1944)
  • Akagaeru (赤 蛙; 1946)

Swell

  • Kamakura City, Kamakura 's Literary Figures - Biography
  • Author
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Novel, epic
  • Member of the Communist Party of Japan
  • Pseudonym
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1903
  • Died in 1945
  • Man
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