Noburu Katagami
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Noburu Katagami (片上 伸, Katagami Noburu, February 20, 1884 – March 5, 1928) was a Japanese literary critic and a professor of Russian literature at Waseda University.[1][2] He is also known as Tengen Katagami (片上天絃, later 片上天弦).
Biography[edit]
Katagami was born in Imabari, Ehime and graduated Waseda University in 1906, majoring English literature. He supported naturalism as an editor of a journal Waseda bungaku. He became a professor at Waseda University in 1910, but later he became interested in Russian literature and traveled to Russia to study Russian literature (1915-1918). In 1920, when Waseda University created a department of Russian literature, Katagami was appointed as the chief professor.
Katagami was also a translator; he translated two editions of Don Quixote, first in 1915 and then in 1927.[3]
Masuji Ibuse, who was one of his students at that time, witnessed Katagami, an epileptic, at the onset of a seizure. Following quarrels with two of his professors, and the incident with Katagami, Ibuse withdrew from both Waseda and art school. Embarrassed, Katagami campaigned against Ibuse's readmission to Waseda University.[4]
Katagami's literature theory became the basis of proletarian literature in Japan. Katagami also introduced Don Quixote to the Soviet writer Anatoly Lunacharsky.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Vollgraf, Carl-Erich (1997). David Borisovič Rjazanov und die erste MEGA (in German). Argument. p. 85. ISBN 978-3-88619-681-4.
- ^ "片上伸(かたかみのぶる)とは？ 意味や使い方". コトバンク (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ a b Bantarō, Seiro; Prichard, Franz (2006). "Modern Japanese Literature and "Don Quixote"". Review of Japanese Culture and Society. 18: 132–146. ISSN 0913-4700. JSTOR 42800231.
- ^ POOLS OF WATER/PILLARS OF (cl). University of Washington Press. pp. 30–31. ISBN 978-0-295-80260-2.
External links[edit]
- Katagami's Umi no Chikara at Aozora Bunko (in Japanese)
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