Takiji Yuriko Award
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Edition 2 (1970) award
Eguchi Kan
えぐち かん
Eguchi Kan
Pen Names:
Eguchi Kan（Born Eguchi Kiyoshi; after World War II he adopted the reading 'Kan' for his name.）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1887-07-20 （Kojimachi, Tokyo, Japan）
- Died
- 1975-01-18 （Karasuyama (former Karasuyama Town), Nasu-Karasuyama, Tochigi, Japan） age 87
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Residence History
- Kojimachi, Tokyo (birthplace) → Karasuyama, Nasu-Karasuyama, Tochigi (evacuated in 1944; final residence)
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Poet, Translator, Literary critic, Literary movement leader
- Active Years
- 1912-1975
- Affiliations
- Japan Socialist League (Central Executive Committee member), Japan Proletarian Literary Federation (participant in founding), Japan Proletarian Writers' League (Central Chairman), New Japan Literary Society (founder), Japanese Communist Party (Central Committee member), Japan Democratic Literary Alliance (Chairman)
- Memberships
- Japan Socialist League, Japan Proletarian Literary Federation, Japan Proletarian Writers' League, New Japan Literary Society, Japanese Communist Party, Japan Democratic Literary Alliance
- Influenced By
- Natsume Sōseki, Katō Hekigoto, Sato Haruo, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- Influenced
- Younger local writers (e.g., in the Karasuyama region), Younger writers of the democratic literary movement
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mie Fourth Middle School (now Mie Prefectural Ujiyamada High School) | — | — | — | — | Japan |
| Fourth High School (former system) | — | — | — | — | Japan |
| Fifth High School (former system) | — | — | — | — | Japan |
| Tokyo Imperial University (now University of Tokyo) | Department of English | Department of English | — | 1912-1917 | Japan |
Mie Fourth Middle School (now Mie Prefectural Ujiyamada High School)
Country:
Japan
Fourth High School (former system)
Country:
Japan
Left school after disputes over career path
Fifth High School (former system)
Country:
Japan
Re-enrolled after leaving Fourth High School
Tokyo Imperial University (now University of Tokyo)
Department of English
/ Department of English
Period:
1912-1917
Country:
Japan
Left before graduation
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Takiji and Yuriko Prize | Wakeshii no Inochi no Uta | 歌集 | Takiji-Yuriko Prize Committee | 受賞 |
Takiji and Yuriko Prize
1970
Work:
Wakeshii no Inochi no Uta
Category:
歌集
Organization:
Takiji-Yuriko Prize Committee
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Akai Yahō (Red Sail)
1919 Short storyHis debut short story, originally published as 'Kakaribune' and later retitled 'Akai Yahō'; an early aesthetic/decadent piece.
AestheticismYouthful emotion
Rōdōsha Yūkai (Worker Kidnapping)
1919 Social novelAn early socially conscious work exposing the conditions faced by workers.
LaborExploitationSocial criticism
Koi to Rōgoku (Love and Prison)
1923 NovelA work from the 1920s illustrating the conflict between personal feelings and social circumstances.
LoveOppressionSocial contradiction
Hanayome to Uma Ippiki (The Bride and One Horse)
1948 Rural novelA representative postwar work depicting rural life and the process of agrarian reform.
Agrarian reformPostwar reconstructionRural life
Waga Bungaku Hanshōki (Half a Literary Life)
1953 MemoirA memoir containing valuable testimony on Taishō-era Japanese literature; recalls prewar and postwar literary activities.
MemoirLiterary history testimonyEra and writers
Wakeshii no Inochi no Uta
1969 Poetry collectionA collection of poems reflecting on life and postwar observations; awarded the Takiji-Yuriko Prize.
LifePostwarReminiscence
Eguchi Kan Selected Works
1972 Selected worksA three-volume selected works compiling representative pieces and late-life writings.
Selected worksRepresentative pieces
Bibliography
- Akai Yahō
- Rōdōsha Yūkai
- Shin Geijutsu to Shinjin
- Seikaku Hasansha
- Akuryō
- Aru Onna no Hanzai
- Konoha no Koban
- Koi to Rōgoku
- Kaminari no Ko
- Kazan no Shita ni
- Himawari no Sho
- Fukurō no Ohikkoshi
- Hataraku Kodomo
- Aijō
- Taiheiyō Hyōryūki
- Ryū to Kodomo
- Kyomu no Hana
- Tanoshii Dōbutsu
- Saigo no Yoru
- Shisō to Seikatsu
- Hanayome to Uma Ippiki
- Waga Bungaku Hanshōki
- Waga Bungakuron
- Mitsu no Shi
- Kikai na Nanatsu no Monogatari
- Hōkensei
- Zoku Waga Bungaku Hanshōki
- Tatakai no Sakka Dōmeiki: Waga Bungaku Hanshōki Part II
- Wakeshii no Inochi no Uta
- Eguchi Kan Selected Works
- Shōnen Jidai
- Banken no Akutagawa Ryūnosuke
Translations by Author
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Shift from early aestheticism to social and proletarian literatureSocially critical realismMemoiristic, testimony-oriented narration
- Recurring Motifs
- Social contradictionsLives of workers and peasantsWar and evacuationReminiscence and historical testimony
Health
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Myocardial infarction1975年1月Died suddenly of a myocardial infarction at home on 18 January 1975
Legacy
As an elder of the proletarian and democratic literary movements, he left important records and testimonies of prewar and postwar literature. He mentored younger local writers and is regarded as a significant figure in modern Japanese literary history.
Academic Societies
- New Japan Literary Society
- Japan Democratic Literary Alliance
Archives
- National Diet Library (related holdings)
- Yōsan-ji Temple, Nasu-Karasuyama (grave site)
- Authority databases such as VIAF and WorldCat
Trivia
- Born Eguchi Kiyoshi; after WWII he adopted the reading 'Kan' for his name.
- Served as funeral committee chairman for Takiji Kobayashi and was arrested reportedly for that role.
- Also chaired the funeral committee for Yuriko Miyamoto and served as an elder of the democratic literary movement.
- In later life he evacuated to Karasuyama in Tochigi Prefecture (now Nasu-Karasuyama) and lived there until his death.