Takeda Rintaro
Takeda Rintarō ( Japanese 武田 麟 太郎 ; born May 9, 1904 in Osaka , Osaka Prefecture ; † March 31, 1946 ) was a Japanese writer.
Takeda was shaped by authors like Nagai Kafu since his youth . After graduating, he edited various literary magazines and was a representative of proletarian literature in the period before the Second World War. With Hayashi Fusao , Kobayashi Hideo and the later Nobel Prize laureate Kawabata Yasunari , he published the magazine Bungakukai from 1933 . During the Second World War he worked as a journalist in Java. He wrote several novels and numerous short stories and translated the works of Ihara Saikaku into modern Japanese. In 1946 he died of cirrhosis of the liver.
Works
- 1940 Yuki no hanashi ( 雪 の 話 ),
- “Story of the snow”, translated by Christine Groß et al., In: Mondscheintropfen. Japanese stories 1940-1990, edited by Eduard Klopfenstein, Theseus, Zurich, 1993, pp. 7-16
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- J. Thomas Rimer, Van C. Gessel: The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature . Volume 1: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945. Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-231-11860-0 , pp. 514 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Official Website City Osaka - Attractions - Takeda Rintaro Literary Monument
- Chiyoda City Tourism Association - Chiyoda's People - Rintaro Takada
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Takeda, Rintaro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 武田 麟 太郎 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osaka |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1946 |