Ōmi Komaki

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Ōmi Komaki
Kamakura, Japan
Occupationwriter and translator
Genretranslations of French literature, essays, poetry
Literary movementProletarian literature Movement.

Ōmi Komaki (小牧 近江, Komaki Ōmi, 11 May 1894 – 29 October 1978) was the

Shōwa period
Japan. His real name was Komaki Ōmiya.

Early life

Komaki was born in

pacifist
activities.

Literary career

Komaki returned to Japan in 1919 and founded the

Arishima Takeo
, and other noted leftist writers. In 1924 another literary magazine Bungei Sensen ("Literary Battlefront") spun out from the original Tane Maku Hito group.

When Komaki had spare time from promoting

thought police, he worked at translating works of French literature into Japanese. His most noted works are translations of Charles-Louis Philippe's Dans la Petite Ville and André Gide
's biography, Charles-Louis Philippe.

After World War II, Komaki became a professor at Hosei University, and continued to pursue his pacifist and Marxist philosophies.

His works include Ikoku no Senso (Other Countries’ Wars) and Furansu Kakumei Yobanashi (Evening Conversations on the French Revolution).

Komaki relocated from Tokyo to

Kanagawa prefecture in 1925. He later spent some years in French Indochina
, but returned after World War II to Kamakura, where he lived until his death in 1978 at the age of 84.

See also

References

  • Hojo, Tsunehisa. Tane maku hito Komaki Omi no seishun. Chikuma Shobo (1995). (Japanese)
  • Keene, Donald. Dawn to the West. Columbia University Press (1998).