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Eguchi Kan

えぐち かん

Eguchi Kan

ペンネーム: Eguchi Kan(Born Eguchi Kiyoshi; after World War II he adopted the reading 'Kan' for his name.)

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1887-07-20 (Kojimachi, Tokyo, Japan)
死没
1975-01-18 (Karasuyama (former Karasuyama Town), Nasu-Karasuyama, Tochigi, Japan) 87歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Kojimachi, Tokyo (birthplace) → Karasuyama, Nasu-Karasuyama, Tochigi (evacuated in 1944; final residence)

経歴

職業
Novelist, Poet, Translator, Literary critic, Literary movement leader
活動期間
1912年〜1975年
所属
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)
所属団体
Japan Socialist League, Japan Proletarian Literary Federation, Japan Proletarian Writers' League, New Japan Literary Society, Japanese Communist Party, Japan Democratic Literary Alliance
影響を受けた人物
Natsume Sōseki, Katō Hekigoto, Sato Haruo, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
影響を与えた人物
Younger local writers (e.g., in the Karasuyama region), Younger writers of the democratic literary movement

学歴

Mie Fourth Middle School (now Mie Prefectural Ujiyamada High School)
国: Japan
Fourth High School (former system)
国: Japan
Left school after disputes over career path
Fifth High School (former system)
国: Japan
Re-enrolled after leaving Fourth High School
Tokyo Imperial University (now University of Tokyo)
Department of English / Department of English
期間: 1912-1917
国: Japan
Left before graduation

受賞歴

Takiji and Yuriko Prize
1970
対象作品: Wakeshii no Inochi no Uta
部門: 歌集
主催: Takiji-Yuriko Prize Committee
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Akai Yahō (Red Sail)

1919年 Short story

His debut short story, originally published as 'Kakaribune' and later retitled 'Akai Yahō'; an early aesthetic/decadent piece.

AestheticismYouthful emotion

Rōdōsha Yūkai (Worker Kidnapping)

1919年 Social novel

An early socially conscious work exposing the conditions faced by workers.

LaborExploitationSocial criticism

Koi to Rōgoku (Love and Prison)

1923年 Novel

A 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年 Rural novel

A representative postwar work depicting rural life and the process of agrarian reform.

Agrarian reformPostwar reconstructionRural life

Waga Bungaku Hanshōki (Half a Literary Life)

1953年 Memoir

A 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年 Poetry collection

A collection of poems reflecting on life and postwar observations; awarded the Takiji-Yuriko Prize.

LifePostwarReminiscence

Eguchi Kan Selected Works

1972年 Selected works

A three-volume selected works compiling representative pieces and late-life writings.

Selected worksRepresentative pieces

全著作

  • 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

作家による翻訳

  • Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

作風・主題

文体
Shift from early aestheticism to social and proletarian literatureSocially critical realismMemoiristic, testimony-oriented narration
頻出モチーフ
Social contradictionsLives of workers and peasantsWar and evacuationReminiscence and historical testimony

健康

  • Myocardial infarction
    1975年1月
    Died suddenly of a myocardial infarction at home on 18 January 1975

評価・遺産

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.

関連学会

  • New Japan Literary Society
  • Japan Democratic Literary Alliance

資料所蔵先

  • National Diet Library (related holdings)
  • Yōsan-ji Temple, Nasu-Karasuyama (grave site)
  • Authority databases such as VIAF and WorldCat

豆知識

  • 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.