Tsuda Takashi

Tsuda Takashi ( Japanese 津 田 孝 , actually: 津 田 孝 獅 ; * 1930 ) is a Japanese literary critic.

Life

He grew up in Osaka and studied Chinese literature at Tokyo University . He then married Tokunaga Sunao's second daughter . He began writing reviews in the late 1950s. His first work was the writing of a commentary and a chronicle in Tokunaga's posthumously published Hitotsu no Rekishi ( 一 つ の 歴 史 , Eng. "A piece of history"). He was part of the Realism Research Group , doing proletarian literature and commentary on contemporary works. Because he was mainly in the magazine published by the Communist Party Bunka Hyōron ( Eng . "Cultural Criticism") was active, there was in the sixties, after he had joined the literary society New Japan , astonishment why he was allowed entry, since KP and Literary society took opposing viewpoints. Therefore, he continued his objections to the program of the literary society after joining and was expelled in 1964 after the 11th General Assembly on the grounds that he had criticized the upcoming program in the magazine Bunka Hyōron .

Together with Eguchi Kan and Shimota Seiji , who were also excluded from the literary society , he participated in the founding of the Alliance for Japanese Democratic Literature in 1965 and worked for a long time as a commentator on democratic literature. Because he was also a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, he was identified with it and widely criticized. In 1976 he received the Takiji-Yuriko Prize with Gendai no Seiji to Sakka-tachi ( 現代 の 政治 と 作家 た ち , German "writers and today's politics") . He also participated in the publication of the collected works of Kobayashi Takiji and Miyamoto Yuriko (published by Shin Nihon Shuppansha ) and wrote comments in the monthly reports on the Takiji works, which he also called Kobayashi Takiji no Sekai ( 小林 多 喜 二 の世界 , dt. "Kobayashi Takiji's world") published.

In 2001 he stopped writing for health reasons.

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