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In this memoir, corporate leader and literary figure Tsutsumi Seiji (who adopted the pen name Tsujii Takashi) offers an account of his life. The memoirist is the eldest son of Tsutsumi Yasujirō (1889–1964), who founded Seibu Railway and went on to be the speaker of Japan’s House of Representatives.
Takashi Tsutsui, a prominent Japanese entrepreneur, philanthropist, and social activist, was born in Tokyo in 1927 to Yasujiro Tsutsui, a wealthy industrialist and founder of the Seibu conglomerate. Despite his privileged upbringing, Tsutsui harbored disillusionment with his father's values and the moral decay he witnessed among the elite.
Timeline of modern Japanese literature. The following table includes the major works of modern Japanese literature mentioned in study aids for Japanese high school students, with the addition of several others of interest to the Western reader.
- Beginnings
- The Heian Period: 794 - 1185
- The Kamakura-Muromachi Period: 1185 - 1600
- The Edo Period: 1600 - 1868
- The Meiji Period: 1868 - 1945
- The Postwar Period: 1945 - Present
Japanese literature traces its beginnings to oral traditions that were first recorded in written form in the early eighth century after a writing system was introduced from China. The Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) and Nihon shoki (Chronicle of Japan) were completed in 712 and 720, respectively, as government projects. The former is an antholog...
Dring the Heian Period, the Japanese were fascinated with Chinese culture. The Imperial Court emulated Chinese fashion and customs while they pursued the arts. A noble was expected to be well-versed in literature, poetry, painting, dancing, calligraphy, and more. Noble men used the Chinese language in the same way that Medieval European nobles and ...
In the latter half of the twelfth century warriors of the Taira clan (Heike) seized political power at the imperial court, virtually forming a new aristocracy. Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike),which depicts the rise and fall of the Taira with the spotlight on their wars with the Minamoto clan (Genji), was completed in the first half of the ...
Around this time the function of literature as a means of social intercourse broadened. Composing Renga (successive linked verses by several people forming a long poem) became a favorite pastime, and this gave birth to Haikai (a sort of comedic Renga) in the sixteenth century. It was the renowned seventeenth century poet Matsuo Basho who perfected ...
The Meiji period marks the re-opening of Japan to the West, and a period of rapid industrialization. The introduction of European literature brought free verse into the poetic repertoire; it became widely used for longer works embodying new intellectual themes. Young Japanese prose writers and dramatists struggled with a whole galaxy of new ideas a...
World War II, and Japan's defeat, deeply influenced Japanese literature. Many authors wrote stories of disaffection, loss of purpose, and the coping with defeat. Osamu Dazai's novel The Setting Sun tells of a soldier returning from Manchukuo. Shohei Ooka won the Yomiuri Prize for his novel Fires on the Plainabout a Japanese deserter going mad in th...
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Seiji Tsutsumi (堤 清二, Tsutsumi Seiji, March 30, 1927 − November 25, 2013) was a Japanese businessperson, author and poet, also known by the pen names Takashi Tsujii (辻井 喬, Tsujii Takashi) and Ikuo Yokose (横瀬 郁夫, Yokose Ikuo).
