"A Short Story of an Idiot"

…He moved from his evacuation site in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, to Yamaguchi, Otamura, Hienuki-gun, on the western outskirts of the city, where he lived in a mining shed, spending seven years in self-exile. In order to reexamine his own actions in the war, which he had devoted himself wholeheartedly to, believing it to be a holy war, and the foundations of his upbringing and the formation of his ideas, and to expose his own weaknesses, he wrote the 20-part series Angoku no Shoden (1947) and continued to write other works. Angoku no Shoden sparked a great deal of debate, as it was also linked to the issue of war responsibility, and was subjected to severe criticism. …

*Some of the terminology used in "A Little Biography of an Idiot" is listed below.

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…疎開先の岩手県花巻市から，その西郊の稗貫郡太田村山口へ鉱山小屋を移築して住みつき，自己流謫の7年間を送った。聖戦と信じて全身全霊うちこんできた戦いにおける自己の行動，その基盤をなす生いたちや思想形成，それらを検討し直し，自己の弱点をえぐり出すべく，〈暗愚小伝〉(1947)20編を書き，さらに他の作品を書きついだ。〈暗愚小伝〉は戦争責任の問題ともからんで大きな論議をまきおこし，厳しい批判にさらされた。…

※「《暗愚小伝》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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