Background
Funaki Shigenobu was born in Tokyo in 1893.
舟木 重信
Funaki Shigenobu was born in Tokyo in 1893.
Funaki Shigenobu graduated from the German Literature course of Tokyo University.
After a writing career, Funaki Shigenobu became professor at Waseda University. An expert on Goethe and Heme, he visited Germany (1923). He translated plays of Strindberg and wrote essays on German literature.