Jun Takami

Jun Takami (Japanese: 高見 順, Takami Jun), responsible Takama Yoshio (jap. 高 間 芳 雄, born January 30, 1907 in Fukui prefecture, died August 17, 1965) - Japanese writer and poet.

His father Sannosuke Sakamoto was the governor of Fukui, mayor of Nagoya, he wrote poems in Chinese. Takami started writing stories in high school, wanting to settle the painful experiences from childhood - he never met his father.

Takami studied English at the University of Tokyo. In the early 1920s, he was influenced by avant-garde and leftist writers. After graduating in 1930, he became interested in Dadaism, Marxism and Anarchism. He participated in the left-wing socio-cultural movement and created mainly proletarian literature. After being arrested for union activities, he renounced his views and was released. He described these experiences and related dilemmas and moral suffering in the novel Kokyū wasurebeckki (You can forget an old friend, 1935-1936), included in the tenkō-bungaku genre (literature on conversion). In his work, he skilfully combined autobiographical elements with observations of Japanese intellectuals' experiences and descriptions of tokyo life, for example in Ikanaru hoshi-no-shita-ni (Under what star, 1939-1940) and analysis of historical events of Iyan kanji (Unpleasant feelings, 1960-1963 ). He also published collections of poetry Jumoku-ha (School of Trees, 1947) and Shi-no fuchi yori (On the Edge of Death, 1964). Bibliography

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