[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.