Tsuboi Shigeji

Shigeji with his wife, the writer Sakae Tsuboi

Tsuboi Shigeji ( Japanese 壺 井 繁 次 ; * October 18, 1898 , † September 4, 1975 ) was a Japanese poet and essayist.

Tsuboi studied at Waseda University and married the writer Iwai Sakae . In the 1920s he joined the anarchist movement and published the volume of poetry Aka to Kuro ( 赤 と 黒 , "Red and Black"). He later joined the communist movement and became a well-known exponent of proletarian literature .

After being imprisoned several times, he withdrew to the country and published hardly anything during the Second World War except humorous texts as a member of the Sancho Pansa Club ( サ ン チ ョ ・ ク ラ ブ , Sanchō Kurabu), which also included Oguma Hideo and Murayama Tomoyoshi .

After the war he helped found two literary magazines and promoted the Shin Nihon Bungakkai (Society for New Japanese Literature). In 1956 the collection of poems Atama no naka no heishi was published , and in 1957 his most famous collection of poems, Fūsen .

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• Scott J. Miller: "The A to Z of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater" , Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 9781461731887 , p. 133
• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 997 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).

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