Background
Homei was born on January 20, 1873, in Awaji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
岩野 泡鳴
novelist translator writer poet
Homei was born on January 20, 1873, in Awaji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
Senshu University.
Born in Hyogo Prefecture, Iwano wanted to become a Christian missionary, but he finally ended up as a literature expert. After some unsuccessful poetry books and kabuki dramas, he published poetical dramas (Shintaishi no sahō, 1907. Shintaishi shi, 1907–08) and analyses of literature (Shimpiteki hanjū shugi, 1906.
Shin shizen shugi, 1908). From 1909 on, he wrote some autobiographical novels like Tandeki (1909) and Hōmei gobusaku (1911). He translated Plutarch.