| The Autobiography of Osugi Sakae Contributor(s): Osugi, Sakae (Author), Marshall, Byron K. (Translator), Marshall, Byron K. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0520077601 ISBN-13: 9780520077607 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $30.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1992 Annotation: "Not only an important literary work but one of the major documents dealing with the development of the left-wing movement in modern Japanese politics."--Fred G. Notehelfer, author of "Kotoku Shusui: Portrait of a Japanese Radical |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Political - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Asia - Japan |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 91031015 |
| Series: Voices from Asia |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6" W x 9" (0.62 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Japanese - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae (1885-1923): rebel, anarchist, and martyr. Flamboyant in life, dramatic in death, Osugi came to be seen as a romantic hero fighting the oppressiveness of family and society. Osugi helped to create this public persona when he published his autobiography (Jijoden) in 1921-22. Now available in English for the first time, this work offers a rare glimpse into a Japanese boy's life at the time of the Sino-Japanese (1894-95) and the Russo-Japanese (1904-5) wars. It reveals the innocent-and not-so-innocent-escapades of children in a provincial garrison town and the brutalizing effects of discipline in military preparatory schools. Subsequent chapters follow Osugi to Tokyo, where he discovers the excitement of radical thought and politics. Byron Marshall rounds out this picture of the early Osugi with a translation of his Prison Memoirs (Gokuchuki), originally published in 1919. This essay, one of the world's great pieces of prison writing, describes in precise detail the daily lives of Japanese prisoners, especially those incarcerated for political crimes. |