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Tokiko Matsuda

まつだ ときこ

Matsuda Tokiko

ペンネーム: Hana Onuma(Birth name)

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1905-07-18 (Arakawa Village, Semboku District, Akita Prefecture, Japan)
死没
2004-12-26 99歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese

経歴

職業
Novelist, Poet, Children's author, Writer
活動期間
1928年〜2004年
所属
New Japanese Literature Association, Japan Democratic Literary Association
影響を受けた人物
Labor movement, Proletarian literature movement
影響を与えた人物
Tetsuro Onuma (son, documentary filmmaker)

学歴

Akita Women's Normal School
Main Course, Second Division (one-year program)
期間: 1923-1924
卒業年: 1924
国: Japan
Completed a one-year normal school course.

受賞歴

Tamura Toshiko Prize
対象作品: Orin Koden
結果: Winner
Takiji & Yuriko Prize
対象作品: Orin Koden
結果: Winner
Yomiuri Newspaper Women's New Short Story Contest - Selected
1928
対象作品: Umu ("To Give Birth")
主催: Yomiuri Shimbun
結果: Selected

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Orin Koden

1966年 Novel

A long novel based on the life of the author's mother. Through the lives of mother and daughter it depicts aspects of capitalism's development and social reform movements in early 20th-century Japan; the centerpiece of a trilogy.

Mother-child relationshipLabor and capitalismSocial reformMining communities

Orin: Mother and Child Account

1974年 Novel

A continuation in the series on mother and child, depicting family and historical backgrounds from the mother's perspective and portraying community life and women's experiences.

Family historyWomen's laborCommunity change

The Typist with a Peach-Shaped Parting

1977年 Fiction

Positioned as a continuation in the trilogy, this work examines women's occupations and social positions, depicting changing times through individual lives.

Women's workUrban life and occupationIndividual independence

Women's Suffering

1933年 Novel

An early novel addressing social pressures and hardships faced by women.

GenderSocial oppressionPoverty

Selling Milk ("Chichi o Uru")

1929年 Short story

A short story concerning poverty and motherhood. One of her early notable pieces; first appeared in a magazine and later reprinted.

PovertyMotherhoodWomen's labor

People of the Earth (The Underground People)

1972年 Fiction

One of the works themed on mining and laborers, portraying people's lives from perspectives of region and labor.

Mining laborCommunityLivelihood and daily life

全著作

  • Women's Suffering (Novel) — 1933
  • To the Patient Ones (Poetry) — 1935
  • Women's Line (Long Novel) — 1937
  • With Children — 1938
  • The Foolish Feast — 1940
  • Topics of Women — 1940
  • Wandering Forest — 1940
  • Meditations on Flowers — 1940
  • A Woman's Dream — 1941
  • Shadow of the Teacher — 1941
  • Morning Mist — 1942
  • Passion of the Sea (Novel) — 1942
  • Notes of a Farming Woman — 1944
  • Orin Koden (Parts I & II) — 1966-1968
  • Daughters of the Mine (Poetry) — 1972
  • Selling Milk — 1972 (collected)
  • People of the Earth — 1972
  • Throbbing Postwar — 1973
  • To Days That Are Not Yet — 1973
  • Orin: Mother and Child Account — 1974
  • The Typist... (Sequel to Orin Mother and Child Account) — 1977
  • Forest of Recollections — 1979
  • The Cherry Trees Within You — 1981
  • Collected Poems of Tokiko Matsuda — 1985
  • Song of the Mountain Cherry — 1985
  • Poems of the Feet — 1987
  • Listening to the Earth — 1987
  • On Living and Literature — 1988
  • Tokiko Matsuda Short Stories — 1989
  • Women Bearing Tomorrow — 1992
  • Still Walking: My Life and Literature — 1995
  • Women's Recollections — 2000
  • Tokiko Matsuda Selected Works (10 vols.) — collected edition
  • The Pink Dubdub: Children's Stories — 2004
  • Selling Milk / Morning Mist (Kodansha Bungei Bunko) — 2005 (edition)

翻案

  • 1929: "Zen Josei Shinshutsu Koshinkyoku" was set to music by Kosaku Yamada and recorded (a piece adopted from a magazine contest).

作風・主題

文体
Realist depictionSocial critique from a female perspectiveLyrical poetic expression (in poetry collections)
頻出モチーフ
Mother-child bondsLabor and mining communitiesWomen's work and livelihoodRural life and modernization

評価・遺産

Tokiko Matsuda is regarded for depicting labor and the transformations of capitalism in early 20th-century Japan through the lives of her mother and herself. Her Orin trilogy, written from a woman's perspective about community and labor, earned literary recognition (including the Tamura Toshiko and Takiji & Yuriko Prizes). She continued writing into old age and is considered an important author for women's and labor histories.

関連学会

  • New Japanese Literature Association
  • Japan Democratic Literary Association

豆知識

  • Birth name: Hana Onuma.
  • In 1928 her short story "Umu" was selected in a Yomiuri Shimbun contest for women writers.
  • She received the Tamura Toshiko Prize and the Takiji & Yuriko Prize for "Orin Koden" (years not specified in source material).
  • Her eldest son is documentary filmmaker Tetsuro Onuma.
  • Died in 2004 at the age of 99.