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

1. ↑ Kotobank Online Dictionary
2. ↑ Kotobank Online Dictionary

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