Kamura Isota

Kamura Isota ( Japanese 嘉 村 磯 多 ; * December 15, 1897 in Niho (today: Yamaguchi ), Yamaguchi Prefecture ; † November 30, 1933 ) was a Japanese writer.

Kamura was born in 1897 to Wakamatsu and Suki Kamura. The family had prospered through farming and landed property. After coming into contact with Christianity in his youth, he became a Buddhist monk of the Jōdo school . In 1918 he married Shizuko Fujimoto. The marriage was not a lucky star and so he ran away with Chitose Ogawa, whom he had met while working at a school, in 1925.

He wrote autobiographical novels and stories such as Gōku (1928) and Tojō , which can be assigned to the Japanese novel form of Shishōsetsu (first- person novel).

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• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 465 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• Hideo Kobayashi, Paul Anderer (Eds.): "Literature of the Lost Home: Kobayashi Hideo-Literary Criticism, 1924-1939" , Stanford University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-8047-4115-6 , p. 161

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Kamura is the family name, Isota the first name.