Hideo Oguma

Poet. Born in Otaru, Hokkaido. After graduating from a high school in Karafuto (Sakhalin), he experienced various odd jobs, and in 1922 (Taisho 11), he joined the Asahikawa Newspaper Company, from which time he began writing poems and children's stories. In 1928, he settled in Tokyo, and wrote poetry enthusiastically despite illness and poverty, and in 1931 (Showa 6), he joined the Proletarian Poets Association. He was an avid reader of Russian literature such as Pushkin, and maintained a flexible and indomitable attitude in an authoritarian era, demonstrating a unique way of being in proletarian literature with his poems written in a "talkative" style and his diverse criticism of his contemporaries. In 1935, he published "Oguma Hideo Poetry Collection" and "Flying Sled." While he wrote essays on art and painters, he also left behind unique paintings (mainly sketches). He participated in the founding of the magazines "Enju" and "Gendai Bungaku" and was active in the field, but died of pulmonary tuberculosis.

[Torii Akihisa]

"Complete Poems of Hideo Oguma" (1965, Shichosha)" ▽ "Complete Works of Hideo Oguma" 5 volumes (1977-78, Sojusha)" ▽ "Biography of Hideo Oguma by Kiichi Sato" (1978, Aries Shobo)

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詩人。北海道小樽(おたる)に生まれる。樺太(からふと)（サハリン）の高等小学校卒業後、さまざまな雑労働を経験し、1922年（大正11）旭川(あさひかわ)新聞社に入社、このころから詩、童話などを書く。28年東京に居を定め、病と貧苦のなかで盛んに詩作し、31年（昭和6）プロレタリア詩人会に加わる。プーシキンなどのロシア文学を愛読し、強権的な時代にあって柔軟かつ不屈な姿勢を貫き、「しゃべりまくる」ようにして書かれた詩や同時代への多様な評言によってプロレタリア文学において独自なありようを示した。35年『小熊秀雄詩集』『飛ぶ橇(そり)』を出版。画論、画家論を書く一方、独特な絵（おもに素描）を残した。『槐(えんじゅ)』『現代文学』の創刊に参加、活躍するが、肺結核のため死去。

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『『小熊秀雄全詩集』（1965・思潮社）』▽『『小熊秀雄全集』全5巻（1977～78・創樹社）』▽『佐藤喜一著『評伝小熊秀雄』（1978・ありえす書房）』

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