Matsubara Iwagoro - Matsubara Iwagoro

Japanese: 松原岩五郎 - まつばら・いわごろう

Year of death: February 26, 1935
Year of birth: 6th August 1866 (14th September 1866)
A journalist from the Meiji period. His other names include Nijusankaido. He was the fourth son of Fukino Gisaburo, a sake brewer from Hoki Province (Tottori Prefecture). At the age of 17, he was adopted into the Matsubara family. He started out as a novelist, but on the recommendation of Koda Rohan, he joined the Kokumin Shimbun company in 1892 (Meiji 25). Influenced by Futabatei Shimei, he explored Tokyo's lower classes and published detailed reports on them in the Kokumin Shimbun. He added a new work to this, The Darkest Tokyo (1893), a masterpiece of documentary literature that is praised alongside Yokoyama Gennosuke's The Lower Classes of Japan. When the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) began, he was dispatched as a war correspondent and sent correspondence from the battlefield.

(Kazuo Komiya)

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

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没年：昭和10.2.26(1935)
生年：慶応2.8.6(1866.9.14)
明治時代のジャーナリスト。別名に二十三階堂などがある。伯耆国(鳥取県)の酒造業吹野儀三郎の4男。17歳のとき,松原家の養子となる。最初は小説家として出発したが,幸田露伴の推薦で明治25(1892)年国民新聞社に入社する。二葉亭四迷の影響を受けて,東京の下層社会を探訪し,その詳細なルポを『国民新聞』に掲載した。これに書き下ろしを加えたのが『最暗黒の東京』(1893)で,記録文学の傑作として,横山源之助『日本之下層社会』と並び称される作品。日清戦争(1894～95)が始まると,従軍記者として派遣され,戦地から通信文を送った。

(小宮一夫)

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