Ikuta Choko

Japanese: 生田長江 - いくた・ちょうこう

Year of death: January 11, 1936
Year of birth: April 21, 1882 (Meiji 15)
A critic and translator from the Meiji to Showa periods. His real name was Koji. He was born in Tottori Prefecture. He was influenced by his upbringing, which was deeply religious in Buddhism, but he also drew closer to Christianity in his youth and was baptized. In 1906 (Meiji 39), he graduated from the Department of Philosophy at Tokyo Imperial University. While still a student, he published a circulating magazine with his classmate Morita Sohei and others, and studied under Baba Kocho. He wrote "Oguri Fuyohron" (1906) for the magazine Geien, which attracted attention. He also became acquainted with Yosano Akiko, and formed the Neishu Literary Society, whose attendees included Hiratsuka Raicho, from which the magazine Seito was born. Around this time, Sato Haruo also studied under Nagae. He also devoted himself to translating Nietzsche, and published works such as Zarathustra (1911). He translated works such as D'Annunzio's The Triumph of Death (1913), Marx's Das Kapital (published in part in 1919), and Dante's Divine Comedy (1929). He also published a collection of essays on writers called Recent Novelists (1912), and published the magazine Hankyo with Kusahira. His essay The Rampage of Pre-Naturalism (1916) is remembered as an essay criticizing the Shirakaba school. After that, he took a tone of return to the East based on religiosity in works such as The Ultramodern Manifesto (1925) and The Supremacy of Religion (1932).

(Kunihiko Nakajima)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：昭和11.1.11(1936)
生年：明治15.4.21(1882)
明治から昭和の評論家,翻訳家。本名弘治。鳥取県の生まれ。仏教に信仰心厚い生家の影響を受けたが,若き日キリスト教にも接近,洗礼も受けた。明治39(1906)年,東京帝大哲学科を卒業。在学時より同級の森田草平らと回覧雑誌を出し,馬場孤蝶に師事。雑誌『芸苑』に「小栗風葉論」(1906)を書き,注目された。与謝野晶子とも知遇を得て閨秀文学会を作るが,聴講者に平塚らいてうらがいて,そこから『青鞜』が生まれた。このころ,佐藤春夫も長江に師事している。また,ニーチェの翻訳に没頭し,『ツァラトゥストラ』(1911)などを刊行。ダヌンツィオ『死の勝利』(1913),マルクス『資本論』(1919年に一部のみ刊),ダンテ『神曲』(1929)などを訳出。一方作家論集『最近の小説家』(1912)なども刊行,草平と雑誌『反響』を出した。『自然主義前派の跳梁』(1916)は『白樺』派批判の論文として記憶される。その後は,『超近代派宣言』(1925)や『宗教至上』(1932)など,宗教性を根底に置き東洋回帰の論調をみせた。

(中島国彦)

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