Nakano Shigeharu

Nakano Shigeharu

Nakano Shigeharu ( Japanese 中 野 重 治 ; born January 25, 1902 in Takaboku (today: Sakai ) in Fukui Prefecture ; † August 24, 1979 ) was a Japanese writer and communist.

Life

Shigeharu was born as the second son of Tōsaku and Tora Nakano in Takaboku (today: Sakai). His father Tōsaku worked as an official in the Ministry of Finance. Shigerharu also had three younger sisters. Nakano met Kubokawa Tsurujirō during high school , with whom he began to write Tanka poetry. He studied German literature at the University of Tokyo .

Later he became concerned with Marxism, founded the literary magazine Roba with Kubokawa and Hori Tatsuo and joined the movement of proletarian literature. In 1931 he joined the Communist Party of Japan . In 1932 he was imprisoned for this. After two years in prison, he broke away from the party in 1934, which he rejoined immediately after the end of World War II. From 1947 to 1950 he was a communist MP in the Sangiin , the newly created, elected upper house of the national parliament, for the national constituency. In 1958 he became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, from which he was expelled in 1964 because of ideological differences.

Nakano published several novels, including Nami no aima (Between the Waves, 1930), Muragimo (In the Depths of the Heart, 1954) and Kō otsu hei tei (1965-69), as well as a collection of poems. In 1955 he was awarded the Mainichi Culture Prize for Muragimo ; In 1959 he received the Yomiuri Literature Prize for Nashi no hana .

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• John Scott Miller: "Historical dictionary of modern Japanese literature and theater" , Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 9780810858107 , pp. 84 f
• Indra A. Levy: "Translation in modern Japan" , Taylor & Francis, 2010, ISBN 9780415573917 , p. 119
• Sharalyn Orbaugh: "Japanese fiction of the Allied occupation: vision, embodiment, identity" , BRILL, 2007, ISBN 9789004155466 , p. 423 f.

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