From morning till midnight

…He dropped out of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo, and travelled to Europe in 1922 to study German avant-garde art, including Expressionism and Constructivism. In 1924, he was in charge of the set design for G. Kaiser's From Morning to Midnight at the Tsukiji Little Theater, and in 1925, he formed the Shinza with Ikeya Shinzaburo and Kawarasaki Chojuro, gradually leaning towards socialism. In 1926, he founded the Zen'eiza with Sano Seki and Senda Koreya, and in 1928, in response to the formation of NAP, he directed and designed the set design for his own work Launching Ceremony for the first performance of the Left Theater, and played an active role as a central figure in the proletarian theater movement. …

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…東大哲学科中退，1922年渡欧，表現主義，構成主義などドイツ前衛芸術を学ぶ。24年築地小劇場のG.カイザー作《朝から夜中まで》の舞台装置を担当，25年池谷信三郎，河原崎長十郎らと心座を結成，しだいに社会主義に傾いた。26年佐野碩，千田是也らと前衛座を創立し，28年ナップ結成に応じた左翼劇場第1回公演に自作《進水式》の演出･装置を手がけ，プロレタリア演劇運動の中心として活躍した。…

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