Morita Sōhei

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Morita Sōhei
Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Died	14 December 1949(1949-12-14) (aged 68) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Writer, Translator
Genre	novelist, translations of Western Literature

Morita Yonematsu (19 March 1881 – 14 December 1949;

Shōwa periods of Japan

Early life

Morita was born into a farming family what is now

Tokyo Imperial University. He returned to Gifu, but remained drawn to literature, especially the works of Natsume Sōseki, and of various English and Russian writers, he left his wife and returned to Tokyo

to pursue a career in the literary world.

Literary career

Morita approached

Hiratsuka Raicho

Morita won critical acclaim and acceptance as a serious writer with his novel Baien (Smoke, 1909), a largely

Asahi Shimbun newspaper. From 1920-1930, Morita taught as a professor of English literature at Hosei University

. During this time, he published a large biography of Natsume Sōseki, and the novel Rinmei (Reincarnation, 1923–1925).

His house in

bombing of Tokyo in World War II, and he relocated to Iida, Nagano

for the remainder of the war.

He turned to

Japan Communist Party

Morita died of liver disease, aggravated by jaundice.

See also

Japanese literature
List of Japanese authors

External links

Works by or about Morita Sōhei at Internet Archive
e-texts of Morita’s works at Aozora Bunko (Japanese site)
Morita Sohei Memorial Museum in Gifu (Japanese site)

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