The autobiography of Ōsugi Sakae
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The autobiography of Ōsugi Sakae
（Voices from Asia, 6）
University of California Press, c1992
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自叙伝
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Translation of: 自叙伝 / 大杉栄
Includes bibliographical references
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ISBN 9780520077591
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In the Japanese labour movement of the early 20th century, Osugi Sakae captured the public imagination as a 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 War (1894-5) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5). 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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: pbk ISBN 9780520077607
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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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Translator's Introduction
Chronology of Major Events in The Autobiography
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF OSUGI SAKAE
Chapter 1 First Memories: To 1894
Chapter 2 Childhood: 1894-1895
Chapter 3 A Young Hooligan: 1895-1899
Chapter 4 Cadet School: 1899-1901
Chapter 5 A New Life: 1901-1902
Chapter 6 Memories of Mother: 1902-1904
Chapter 7 Life in Prison: 1906-1910
Bibliography
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