Kon Tōkō
Kon Tōkō ( Japanese 今 東 光 ; born March 25, 1898 in Yokohama ; † September 19, 1977 ) was a Japanese writer and politician .
The older brother of the writer Kon Hidemi initially belonged to the proletarian literary movement before he became a Buddhist monk in 1930. He reflected on this biographical break in the novel Ogin-sama ( お 吟 さ ま ; 1956), for which he received the Naoki Prize . Other important works were Shundei Nishō ( 春泥 尼 抄 ; 1957) and Akumyō ( 悪 名 ; 1961). Many of his novels were also made into films.
In 1968 he was elected to the Sangiin , the upper house of the Japanese parliament, for the Liberal Democratic Party , receiving over one million votes in the national constituency and finishing in fourth place.
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- Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 560 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
- Kon Tōkō in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ JANJAN, The Senkyo: Sangiin election 1968, national constituency ( Memento of November 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kon, Tōkō |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 今 東 光 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yokohama |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th September 1977 |