Komaki Ōmi

Komaki Ōmi ( Japanese 小 牧 近 江 , actually Ōmiya Komaki ( 近 江 谷 駧 ); born May 11, 1894 in Tsuchizakiminato (today: Akita ), Akita Prefecture ; † October 29, 1978 in Kamakura ) was a Japanese writer.

Komaki studied law at the University of Paris and was influenced during this time by the pacifist ideas of Romain Rolland and Henri Barbusses . After his return to Japan in 1919 he founded the Tanemakuhito magazine with Kaneko Yōbun . He wrote poetry and campaigned for an end to the war and the liberation of the oppressed class in articles. He was one of the first to draw attention to the Communist International in Japan , and he was a pioneer of proletarian literature in Japan. He also emerged as a translator of the works of Charles-Louis Philippe and André Gide .

After the Second World War, Komaki headed the Chūō Rōdō Gakuin ("Central Workers College ") and later became a professor at Hōsei University . Among his works are particularly Ikoku no Sensō ( 異国 の 戦 „," wars of other countries ") and Furansu Kakumei Yobanashi ( ふ ら ん す 革命 夜話 ," evening talks about the French Revolution ") to be mentioned.

Web links

• City of Kamakura, Kamakura's writers: Komaki Ōmi ( Japanese , English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Source ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. reads 洋文 as Hirofumi. For Yōbun, however, see the entry in the digital version of the Nihon Jimmei Daijiten . 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Komaki / Ōmiya is the family name, Ōmi / Komaki the first name.