Kaijinmaru

…When his first collection of stories, A New Life (1916), was published, he displayed his unique style of hymning motherhood, while in 1920 he translated Heidi, based on the original work by J. Spiri. In 1922 he published Kaijinmaru, and in 1926 he published Oishi Yoshio, displaying his intellectual ability to compose, cultivated through his education in Western classics, and an idealistic style based on precise realism. In the Showa period, social trends became evident in works such as Machiko, Young Son, and Sad Boy, and Labyrinth, which he began writing in 1936, was completed in 1956 and highly praised as a representative work of citizen literature. …

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…処女創作集《新しき命》(1916)出版のころは母性賛歌の独自の作風を見せ，一方で20年にはJ.シュピーリ原作の《ハイヂ》を翻訳した。22年《海神丸》，26年《大石良雄》を発表，西欧古典の教養に培われた知的構成力と，精緻なリアリズムに基づく理想主義的作風を示した。昭和期に入って《真知子》《若い息子》《哀しき少年》など社会的傾向が色濃くなり，36年から書き始められていた《迷路》が56年完結し，市民文学の代表作として高く評価された。…

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