Shimazaki Toson

Shimazaki Haruki, known as Shimazaki Toson, was born on 25 March 1872 in Magome, a mountain post town in what is now Gifu Prefecture. A pupil at the Meiji Gakuin school, where he was baptised, he first made his name as a poet within a romantic movement and published his first collection of verse in 1897, before turning to prose. He lived in France from 1913 to 1916. In 1935 he became the first president of the Japanese branch of the PEN Club and completed a vast historical chronicle inspired by his father's life. He died in Oiso on 22 August 1943.

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• NovelThe Broken Commandment破戒Shimazaki Toson · 1906Literature