Minakami Takitarō
Minakami Takitarō ( Japanese 水上 滝 太郎 ; aka: Abe Shōzō ( 阿 部 章 蔵 ); * December 6, 1887 in Tokyo ; † March 23, 1940 ) was a Japanese writer, critic and playwright.
Minakami was born as the fourth son of Taijirō Yasuda , the founder of the life insurance company Meiji Yasuda Seimei Hoken . Like his father, Takitarō studied at Harvard University in the USA, graduated in economics and traveled to Europe for a long time. In his novels like Ōsaka no yado , he mainly described the life of employees ( sarariman ). His essays, written between 1918 and 1939, were published under the title Kaigara tsuihō .
source
- Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 632 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
Web links
- Digital copies of his works at Aozora Bunko
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Minakami, Takitarō |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 水上 滝 太郎 (Japanese); Abe, Shōzō (real name); 阿 部 章 蔵 (real name, Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1940 |