Background
Kiukoka was born in Hirosaki city, Aomori prefecture.
菊岡 久利
Kiukoka was born in Hirosaki city, Aomori prefecture.
His real name was Takagi Michinokuo. Interested in literature from an early age, he dropped out of high school (where he was studying the Russian language, and became a disciple of Ozaki Kihachi. Politically, he was also drawn to the anarchist movement.
In the post-World World War II era, he worked for Radio Tokyo, and later at Daiei Movie Studios as a producer, and cooperated extensively with noted author Yokomitsu Riichi.
In 1947, he also joined Takami June"s literary criticism circle, Nihon Miraiha ("Japan"s Future Society"). He also began writing novels.