Mushanokoji Saneatsu - Mushanokoji Saneatsu

Japanese: 武者小路実篤 - むしゃのこうじさねあつ

Born: May 12, 1885 in Tokyo
[Died] April 9, 1976. Tokyo Novelist and playwright. Born into a former aristocratic family, he enrolled in the Department of Sociology at the University of Tokyo in 1906 but dropped out the following year. Together with Shiga Naoya, Ogimachi Kimikazu, and Kinoshita Rigen, he founded the circulating magazine Nozomi (1908), which he expanded into Shirakaba two years later, becoming the ideological leader of the Shirakaba school, which advocated self-love and self-respect. He attracted attention with his novels Omedetaki Hito (11) and Sekenachichi (12), which depicted his own romantic experiences, and published the play Sono Imouto (15). From that time onwards, he developed a strong inclination towards utopian socialism, and built a new village in Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture (18). He also wrote works such as "The Happy One" (19), "Friendship" (19), "The Fate of the Third Hermit" (23), and the plays "Long Live Humanity" (22) and "Love and Desire" (26). The number of works he produced was enormous, and in his later years he achieved a state of Eastern enlightenment and detachment from the world, as seen in "Mari Sensei" (49-50). He was a member of the Japan Art Academy, and was awarded the Order of Culture in 1976.

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Japanese:

[生]1885.5.12. 東京
[没]1976.4.9. 東京
小説家，劇作家。旧華族の家に生れ，1906年東京大学社会学科に入学したが翌年中退。志賀直哉，正親町 (おおぎまち) 公和，木下利玄らと回覧誌『望野』を創刊し (1908) ，2年後『白樺』に発展させ，自己愛と自我尊重という『白樺』派の思想的指導者となった。自身の恋愛体験を描いた小説『お目出たき人』 (11) ，『世間知らず』 (12) で注目され，戯曲では『その妹』 (15) を発表。その頃から空想的社会主義の傾向を強くし，宮崎県日向に「新しき村」をつくる (18) 一方，『幸福者』 (19) ，『友情』 (19) ，『第三の隠者の運命』 (23) や，戯曲『人間万歳』 (22) ，『愛欲』 (26) などを書いた。その作品数は膨大であり，晩年は『真理先生』 (49～50) にみられるように脱俗の東洋的悟達の心境を手に入れた。芸術院会員。 51年文化勲章受章。

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