"Love takes away without hesitation" - Oshiku ai wa ubau

…In 1916, after the death of his wife and father, he began to devote himself to literature in earnest, and published many works, including “Cain’s Descendants” (1917), “Birth Troubles” and “Labyrinth” (both 1918), quickly becoming a popular author in the literary world. In 1919, he revised “Glimpse of a Woman” to create the first part, and wrote the second part himself, completing his masterpiece “A Certain Woman.” In 1920, he published the final version of his unique philosophy of life, “Love Takes Without Hesitance,” achieving the pinnacle of his literary career. His creative ability declined after that, and he also abandoned his long novel “Constellations” (1922), but in 1922 he published “A Manifesto,” a sincere agonizing work about how a propertied intellectual should live in the historical situation following the Russian Revolution, and that same year he also liberated the Arishima Farm in Hokkaido, which attracted attention. …

*The following is a partial explanation of the term "Love takes without hesitation."

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…16年妻と父の死を契機に本格的に文学にうちこむようになり，《カインの末裔》(1917)，《生れ出づる悩み》《迷路》(ともに1918)など数多くの作を発表し，一躍文壇の人気作家となった。19年《或る女のグリンプス》を改稿して前編とし，後編を書き下ろして代表作《或る女》を完成し，続いて20年，独自の生命哲学《惜みなく愛は奪ふ》の決定稿を発表し，彼の文学の頂点をなす仕事を果たした。以後創作力が衰え，長編《星座》(1922)も中絶するが，ロシア革命後の歴史状況にあって有産階級の知識人がいかに生きるかを真摯（しんし）に苦悩した〈宣言一つ〉を22年に発表し，また，その年に北海道の有島農場を解放したりして話題を呼んだ。…

※「《惜みなく愛は奪ふ》」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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