Showa Shi Kogi Senzen Bunka Jin Hen (Chiku Ma Shinsho 1421)

[Machine Translation] How did Japan's leading intellectuals, writers, popular authors, painters, architects, cartoonists, and other cultural figures survive the prewar Showa period? This book examines sixteen of them (Ishibashi Tanzan, Watsuji Tetsuro, D.T. Suzuki, Yanagida Kunio, Tanizaki Junichiro, Yoda Yojero, Edogawa Ranpo, Nakazato Kozan, Hasegawa Shin, Yoshiya Nobuko, Hayashi Fumiko, Fujita Tsuguharu, Tagawa Suiwo, Ito Chuta, Yamada Kosuke, and Saijo Hachiju) and uses the latest knowledge to accurately portray their personalities. The book also examines the turbulent times by looking at how they related to or turned their backs on the war. This is the fifth volume in the popular "Lectures on Showa History" series.

近代日本を代表する知識人や文人、大衆作家、画家、建築家、漫画家ら文化人たちは昭和戦前期をいかに生き抜いたか。石橋湛山、和辻哲郎、鈴木大拙、柳田国男、谷崎潤一郎、保田與重郎、江戸川乱歩、中里介山、長谷川伸、吉屋信子、林芙美子、藤田嗣治、田河水泡、伊東忠太、山田耕筰、西條八十の一六人を採り上げ、最新の知見からその人物像を正確に描き出す。また彼らが戦争とどう関わり、あるいは背を向けたかを見ることで激動の時代を検証する。好評・昭和史講義シリーズの第五弾。