Tsuruta Tomoya
Tsuruta Tomoya ( Japanese 鶴 田 知 也 ; born February 19, 1902 in Kokura (today: Kitakyūshū ), Fukuoka Prefecture ; † April 1, 1988 ) was a Japanese writer.
Life
Tomoya was born in Kokura. After attending middle school there, he moved to Tokyo and began studying theology with Uemura Masahisa . Without a degree, he left the university prematurely to go to Hokkaidō . He wandered all over Japan as a farm and factory worker.
In Nagoya he joined the union under Hayama Yoshiki and he joined the democracy movement under the influence of Yamakawa Hitoshi . Then in the post-war period he joined the Socialist Party of Japan . He made efforts to establish literary groups for peasant or socialist literature.
With Koshamain-ki ( コ シ ヤ マ イ ン 記 ), about the eponymous (also 胡 奢 魔 犾 , 胡 奢 麻 尹 , 胡 奢 魔 尹 ) Ainu chief from the 15th century in Ezo ( Hokkaidō ), who led an uprising against the Japanese , Tomoya won the Akutagawa Prize in 1936 . He chose epic poetry as his preferred literary style.
Individual evidence
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SURNAME | Tsuruta, Tomoya |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 鶴 田 知 也 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1902 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kokura (now: Kitakyūshū ), Fukuoka Prefecture |
DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1988 |