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Biography Shimazaki Toson

Poet Biography

Toson Shimazaki ( Shimazaki Toson, 25 March 1872 – 22 August 1943) is the pen-name of a Japanese author, active in the Meiji, Taisho and early Showa period Japan.

He began his career as a poet, but went on to establish himself as the major proponent of naturalism in Japanese literature. His real name was Shimazaki Haruki. Toson was lauded by literary critics for the establishment of a new Japanese verse form in Wakanashu and as one of the creators of the Meiji Romanticism ( Meiji Roman Shugi) literary movement, he soon turned his talents to prose fiction.

His first novel, The Broken Commandment was published in 1906.

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It was considered a landmark in Japanese realism and is thus regarded as the first Japanese naturalist novel. It is a story of a burakumin schoolteacher, who keeps his out-caste status secret until near the end of the story. While he was writing, each of