Background
Taijun Takeda was born on February 12, 1912 Kyoto, Japan. Takeda was the second son of a Buddhist priest of the Pure Land Sect, and was raised in a temple.
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The story tells of the life of a man who as a member of a defeated nation living in a foreign country, feels no responsibility to anyone but himself--and this only in relation to food and water. Eventually, the hero is given the chance to initiate a change in his aimless life and he acts, for mankind or for love, in committing what is meant to be a Dostoyevskian axe-type murder.
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泰淳 武田
Taijun Takeda was born on February 12, 1912 Kyoto, Japan. Takeda was the second son of a Buddhist priest of the Pure Land Sect, and was raised in a temple.
Taijun Takeda developed an early interest in both Chinese literature and left-wing politics and, on graduating from high school, he chose to major in Sinology at Tokyo University in 1931. He did not complete his degree, for he withdrew from the university after being arrested for distributing leaflets critical of imperialism, which cost him a month’s imprisonment. However, it was there that he became acquainted with Yoshimi Takeuchi. Taijun Takeda joined the Chinese Literature Research Institute in 1933.
After the war he became manager of a publishing house bringing out several magazines devoted to literature. His book "Rainbow at Night" was a success and established him as a writer. Among his other works are "Shape of Love" and "The World of Shiki", a Chinese classic.
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