Noburu Katagami
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{{Infobox person
| name = Noburu Katagami
| image = Katagami Noboru.jpg
| native_name = 片上 伸
| native_name_lang = ja
| birth_date = {{birth date|1884|11|20}}
| birth_place = Imabari, Ehime, Japanese Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age|1928|03|05|1884|11|20}}
| alma_mater = Tōkyō Professional School
| employer = Tōkyō Professional Schoo
| known_for = Researching Russian literature
}}
{{nihongo|Noburu Katagami|片上 伸|Katagami Noburu|February 20, 1884 – March 5, 1928}} was a Japanese literary critic and a professor of Russian literature at Waseda University.{{Cite book |last=Vollgraf |first=Carl-Erich |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gDYFAQAAIAAJ |title=David Borisovič Rjazanov und die erste MEGA |date=1997 |publisher=Argument |isbn=978-3-88619-681-4 |pages=85 |language=de}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=片上伸(かたかみのぶる)とは？ 意味や使い方 |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%89%87%E4%B8%8A%E4%BC%B8-44908 |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=コトバンク |language=ja}} He is also known as Tengen Katagami {{Nihongo|2=片上天絃|4=later 片上天弦}}.
Biography
Katagami was born in Imabari, Ehime and graduated Waseda University in 1906, majoring English literature. He supported naturalism as an editor of a journal Waseda bungaku. He became a professor at Waseda University in 1910, but later he became interested in Russian literature and traveled to Russia to study Russian literature (1915-1918). In 1920, when Waseda University created a department of Russian literature, Katagami was appointed as the chief professor.
Katagami was also a translator; he translated two editions of Don Quixote, first in 1915 and then in 1927.{{Cite journal |last1=Bantarō |first1=Seiro |last2=Prichard |first2=Franz |date=2006 |title=Modern Japanese Literature and "Don Quixote" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42800231 |journal=Review of Japanese Culture and Society |volume=18 |pages=132–146 |jstor=42800231 |issn=0913-4700}}
Masuji Ibuse, who was one of his students at that time, witnessed Katagami, an epileptic, at the onset of a seizure. Following quarrels with two of his professors, and the incident with Katagami, Ibuse withdrew from both Waseda and art school. Embarrassed, Katagami campaigned against Ibuse's readmission to Waseda University.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W29KfWxbc48C |title=POOLS OF WATER/PILLARS OF (cl) |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=978-0-295-80260-2 |pages=30–31 |language=en}}
Katagami's literature theory became the basis of proletarian literature in Japan. Katagami also introduced Don Quixote to the Soviet statesman Anatoly Lunacharsky.
References
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External links
- [https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000492/files/42248_48114.html Katagami's Umi no Chikara] at Aozora Bunko (in Japanese)
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