Kojima Masajirō

Kojima Masajirō ( Japanese 小島 政 二郎 ; born January 31, 1894 in Tokyo Prefecture ; † March 24, 1994 in Kamakura ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

Kojima studied at Keiō University , where he dealt with authors of the Edo period such as Nagai Kafū and Mori Ōgai and European literature and wrote short stories as contributions to the literary magazine Mita Bungaku . After graduating in 1918, he worked for Suzuki Miekichi's magazine Akai Tori , in which he published stories for children.

With the stories Ichimae Kanban and Ie Kojima established himself as a writer in Japan. With the story Ganchū no Hito ( 眼中 の 人 ) he gained the recognition of the authors Kikuchi Kan and Natsume Sōseki . After the Second World War, Kojima emerged with a number of biographical works, including Ōgai, Kafū, Mantarō on Mori Ōgai, Nagai Kafū and Kubota Mantarō . He died in Kamakura in 1994 at the age of over a hundred years.

Works

• Ichimae Kamban ( 一枚 看板 )
• Ie ( 家 )
• Midori no Kishi ( 緑 の 騎士 )
• Kaisō ( 海燕 )
• Hitozuma Tsubaki ( 人 妻 椿 )
• Taifū no Me no yō na ( 颱風 の 目 の や う な )
• Ōgai, Kafu, Mantarō ( 鴎 外 荷風 万 太郎 )
• Enchō ( 円 朝 )

Web links

• Kamakura City, Kamakura´s Literary Figures - Biography

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Kojima is the family name, Masajirō the first name.