Ikuma Arishima
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Arishima Ikuma
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| Born |
26 November 1882 Yokohama, Japan |
| Died | 15 September 1974 (aged 91) Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Occupation | Writer, Artist |
| Genre | short stories, novels, essays |
| Literary movement | Shirakaba |
Ikuma Arishima (有島 生馬 Arishima Ikuma?, 26 November 1882 – 15 September 1974) was the pen-name of Arishima Mibuma, a Japanese novelist and painter active in the Taishō and Shōwa period. He also used Utosei and then Jugatsutei as alternative pen names.
Ikuma was born in Yokohama into a wealthy family as the son of an ex-samurai official in the Ministry of Finance. His older brother was the writer, Arishima Takeo, and his younger brother, the writer and painter Satomi Ton. He graduated from what is now the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, where he specialized in the Italian language. After graduation, he studied Western-style painting under Fujishima Takeji. He then went to Europe in 1905 to study painting and sculpture in Italy and France, and was especially drawn to the works of Paul Cézanne.
After Ikuma's return to Japan in 1910, he joined the Shirakaba literary circle and participated in production of the first issue their literary magazine. He published new-style poems and short stories in the magazine, and used it as a vehicle to introduce the works of the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne to the Japanese public.
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