Hideo Oguma

Hideo Oguma was born on 9 September 1901 in Otaru, in Hokkaidō, and spent part of his childhood in Karafuto. He did various odd jobs before joining the Asahikawa newspaper in 1922, for which he ran the literary page. Settled in Tokyo in 1928, he lived there in poverty, joined the society of proletarian poets in 1931 and frequented the painters of the district that he nicknamed the Montparnasse of Ikebukuro; he drew himself. He died of tuberculosis in Tokyo on 20 November 1940.

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• Poetry小熊秀雄詩集Hideo Oguma · 1935not translated into EnglishLiterature