Tōson Shimazaki
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Tōson Shimazaki was the pen-name of Haruki Shimazaki, a Japanese writer active in the Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. He began his career as a Romantic poet, but went on to establish h
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Tōson Shimazaki, ca. 1900
The Broken Commandment
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The Broken Commandment is a Japanese novel written by Tōson Shimazaki published in 1906 under the title Hakai. The novel deals with the burakumin, formerly known as eta. This book enjoyed great popula
Tōson Shimazaki
…but after the turn of the century he turned his talents to prose fiction. In 1899, he married merchant daughter Fuyuko Hata. Shimazaki's first novel, The Broken Commandment, appeared self-financed in 1906 and is widely regarded as the first Japanese Naturalist novel. The story follows a burakumin schoolteacher torn between…
First English edition