Kikuchi Hiroshi (Nippon No Sakka 100 Nin)

[Machine Translation] Kikuchi Kan was a man of letters at the center of the Japanese literary world who was not at all like a literary figure. Founder of Bungeishunju, Kikuchi Kan depicted popular society and urban culture in such works as "Beyond Vengeance", "Fujuro's Love", and "Madame Pearl". To look at the life of Kikuchi Kan, who could be called a companion of the times, is to look at the establishment and collapse of Japan's modern era. This exhibition will reconsider Kikuchi's literature, which has always been exposed to the changes of the times because he never confined himself to himself but remained in the center of the world, in the context of contemporary society.

日本文壇の中心にいた"全く文学者らしくない"人物。文藝春秋社創始者であり、『恩讐の彼方に』『藤十郎の恋』『真珠夫人』などで大衆社会、都市文化を描きつづけた菊池寛。時代の同伴者ともいうべきその人生を見ていくことは、日本の近代の確立と崩壊を見ていくことに他ならない。決して自分の中に閉じこもることなく、世相の真ん中にいたがゆえに、常に時代の変化に晒されつづける菊池文学を、現代社会を考える意味で再考する。