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Shiga Naoya
- 1883-1971
- Japanese Novelist and Short story writer active during the Taisho and Showa Periods
- Shirakaba (white birch) writing school (individualism, idealism, and humanitariansim
- At Kinosaki
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At Kinosaki
- 1917
- Shiga Naoya
- I-novel
- story about Reflections on death
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Kikuchi Kan
- 1888-1948
- Born in Takamatsu. As a child loved to read books. Attended Higher Normal School. Founded a literary journal called Bungei Shunju.
- Writings focused on the realities of contemporary Japanese.
- wrote Madman on the roof
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The Madman on the roof
- 1916
- Written by Kikuchi Kan
- Yoshitaro always goes on the roof and enjoys the sunset. His brother Sueshiro says to accept him. A priestess thinks that he is possessed by the fox spirit.
- Themes: Happiness, Family, Superstition vs. Education
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Kobayashi Takiji
- 1903-1933
- Grew up in Hokkaido. After graduating school worked at a bank. In 1927, joined a proletarian writing group.
- Most important figure in proletarian literature
- wrote the cannery boat
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The Cannery Boat
- 1929
- Kobayashi Takiji
- Proletarian Literature
- Japanese workers are stuck on a cannery boat with a demanding boss. Russian family comes to save them.
- theme: Labor, Struggle, and challenges
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Proletarian Literature
- 1921
- Kobayashi Takiji
- Writings about working class citizens with anti-capitalist views.
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Kawabata Yasunari
- Became one of the first contributors to kikuchi kan’s literary magazine, Bungei Shunju. First to receive nobel prize in japanese literature
- Narrative style expresses the essence of the japanese mind. Writings like a pattern of linked poetry
- Pointless or meaningless relationship
- wrote snow country
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Snow Country
- 1935-1947
- Kawabata Yasunari
- Shimamura（島村）Shimamura is a traveler from Tokyo who is very rich from an inheritance that he received.
- Komako （駒子）Komako is a geisha who falls in love with Shimamura, but Shimamura does not love her back.
- Yōko （葉子）Yoko admires Shimamura greatly.
- Small elements of naturalism
- Theme: Relationships/love
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Neo-perceptionists school
- 1924-1928
- was a movement influenced by literary principles not ideological principles
- Neo-Perceptionist writers emphasized:style. Using the senses. Careful attention to rythm and imagery. A lot of symoblism
- most important writer and story:Kawabata yasunari
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Tanizaki Junichiro
- 1886-1965
- famous writer of modern Japanese Literature and novelist
- utilized symbolism
- Wrote the Makioka Sisters, the tattooer
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Naturalism
Writings focus on the heredity and environment of the lower class
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White Birch School
- Writing that is autobiographical with conscious self revelation
- nature was source for literature
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Romanticism
Writers who emphasized human feeling and the importance of the individual and freedom
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Modernist
aimed to change the way we see the world. New ways of telling a story
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Decadant school Buraiha
- spent time at bars and relationships with bar women
- Dazai Osamu
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Meiji
- 1868 to 1912
- Period of Rapid Westernization
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Tokugawa Period
- 1600-1868
- Four classes in societ
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Taisho Period
- 1912-1926
- Great Righteousness
- crushing of proletarian writing
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