Taoka Reiun

Taoka Reiun ( Japanese 田 岡 嶺 雲 ; * November 21, 1879 , † September 7, 1912 ) was a Japanese cultural and literary critic .

Taoka learned the Chinese language in his childhood by reading works such as Kokushiryaku , Nihon gaishi and Jūhasshiryaku . Influenced by Chinese philosophers such as Zhuāngzǐ and Lǎozǐ , Arthur Schopenhauer and Eduard von Hartmann and cultural critics such as Edward Carpenter and Max Nordau , he dealt critically with the political, cultural, industrial and military developments of the Meiji period . After 1900 he published numerous essays, which he referred to as Hibunmeiron ( 非 文明 論 , "Treatises on the civilization that is not"). His autobiography Sakkiden ( 数 奇 伝 ) appeared in 1911 in the magazine Chūōkōron .

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• Evelyn Schulz: Nagai Kafû: “Diary of a Homecoming”: The design of aesthetic alternative worlds as a criticism of the modernization of Japan . LIT Verlag, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3487-5 , p. 63–64 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Ai Maeda: Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity . Duke University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8223-8562-2 , pp. 230–233 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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