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by Sakae Osugi; Byron K. Marshall (Translator); Introduction by Byron K. Marshall

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In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae (1885-1923): rebel, anarchist, and martyr. Flamboyant in life, dramatic in death, Osugi came to be seen as a romantic hero fighting the oppressiveness of family and society.

Osugi helped to create this public persona when he published his autobiography (Jijoden) in 1921-22. Now available in English for the first time, this work offers a rare glimpse into a Japanese boy's life at the time of the Sino-Japanese (1894-95) and the Russo-Japanese (1904-5) wars. It reveals the innocent--and not-so-innocent--escapades of children in a provincial garrison town and the brutalizing effects of discipline in military preparatory schools. Subsequent chapters follow Osugi to Tokyo, where he discovers the excitement of radical thought and politics.

Byron Marshall rounds out this picture of the early Osugi with a translation of his Prison Memoirs (Gokuchuki), originally published in 1919. This essay, one of the world's great pieces of prison writing, describes in precise detail the daily lives of Japanese prisoners, especially those incarcerated for political crimes.

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"Not only an important literary work but one of the major documents dealing with the development of the left-wing movement in modern Japanese politics."--Fred G. Notehelfer, author of Kotoku Shusui: Portrait of a Japanese Radical

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  • Title The Autobiography of Osugi Sakae
  • Author Sakae Osugi; Byron K. Marshall (Translator); Introduction by Byron K. Marshall
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Not First Editio
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1992-12-17
  • Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780520077607 / 0520077601
  • Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.43 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.09 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Osugi, Sakae, Anarchists - Japan
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 91031015
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Byron K. Marshall is Professor of Japanese History at the University of Minnesota and the author of Capitalism and Nationalism in Prewar Japan: The Ideology of the Business Elite, 1868-1941 (1967).

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