Hirabayashi taiko biography

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Taiko Hirabayashi

Taiko Hirabayashi (平林 たい子?, Hirabayashi Taiko), pseudonimo di Hirabayashi Tai (Suwa, 3 ottobre1905 – Tokyo, 17 febbraio1972) è stata una scrittricegiapponese, attiva durante il periodo Shōwa.

Biografia

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Hirabayashi nasce da una famiglia di piccoli imprenditori nella prefettura di Nagano, dove riceve l'istruzione primaria e secondaria. Fin dalla tenera età dimostra una propensione per la scrittura e la letteratura e interesse per idee liberali e socialiste.

Dopo essersi diplomata alla Scuola Superiore femminile di Suwa nel 1922, si trasferisce a Tōkyō, dove ricopre lavoretti saltuari e convive con l'anarchico Yamamoto Torazō (山本虎三?)[1]. Al ritorno da un viaggio in Corea, vengono entrambi arrestati nel clima di confusione e provvedimenti restrittivi conseguente al terremoto del Kantō del 1923 e rilasciati a condizione di lasciare Tōkyō. Hirabayashi si trasferisce nella Manciuria. La figlia che dà alla luce quell'anno muore dopo pochi giorni per malnutrizione.

Al ritorno a Tōkyō, frequenta associazioni

Taiko Hirabayashi

Japanese writer (1905-1972)

Taiko Hirabayashi (平林 たい子, Hirabayashi Taiko, 3 October 1905 – 17 February 1972) was the pen-name of a Japanese writer. Her real name was Hirabayashi Tai.

Biography

Hirabayashi resolved at the age of 12 to become a writer and also developed an interest in socialism at a young age. After graduating from the Suwa Women’s Higher School in 1922, she moved to Tokyo and began living with an anarchist named Torazo Yamamoto.[1] They went to Korea together but returned after only one month. They were both arrested in the confusion and clampdowns following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and released on condition of leaving Tokyo. She eventually moved to Manchuria and was to give birth in a hospital in Dalian but the child lived for only twenty-four days, dying of malnutrition. Based on this personal experience, she wrote the short story In the Charity Hospital, which established her as a writer of proletarian literature.

She married the novelist and critic Jinji Kobori [ja] in 1927, but divorced him

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