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Noburu Katagami | |
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片上 伸 | |
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Died | March 5, 1928 | (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).
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]