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Noburu Katagami

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Noburu Katagami
片上伸

Born	(1884-11-20)November 20, 1884 Imabari, Ehime, Japanese Empire
Died	March 5, 1928(1928-03-05) (aged 43)
Alma mater	Tōkyō Professional School
Employer	Tōkyō Professional Schoo
Known for	Researching Russian literature

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

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

^ 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.