Kinoshita Mokutaro
| Mokutaro Kinoshita or Masao Ota | |
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Mokutaro Kinoshita in 1934
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| Born | Masao Ota August 1, 1885 Itō, Shizuoka, Japan |
| Died |
October 15, 1945 (aged 60) Tokyo |
| Pen name | Mokutaro Kinoshita |
| Occupation | Author and Physician (dermatologist), Professor of Dermatology (South Manchuria Medical College, Aichi Medical College, Tohoku Imperial University, Tokyo Imperial University |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Period | Taisho era and Showa era |
| Genre | Novels, dramas, poems, historian, translation, literary critic, scientific papers on infection, especially leprosy |
| Literary movement | Pan-no-kai (Romanticism) |
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Mokutarō Kinoshita (木下 杢太郎 Kinoshita Mokutarō?, August 1, 1885 – October 15, 1945) was the pen-name of a Japanese author, dramaturge, poet, art historian and literary critic, as well as a licensed doctor specializing in dermatology during Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan. His other pen names included Horikason (堀花村), Chikaisshakusei (地下一尺生), Sounan (葱南) and others. As professor of dermatology and a noted leprosy researcher, he served at four universities (South Manchuria Medical College, Aichi Medical College, Tohoku Imperial University, Tokyo Imperial University).
Kinoshita was born in what is now part of Itō, Shizuoka as Masao Ōta (太田正雄 Ōta Masao?). He moved to Tokyo at the age of 13 to pursue studies in the German language, during which time he was exposed to German literature and history. In 1906 entered the Medical School of Tokyo Imperial University to pursue a medical career and to translate literary works and to cultivate contacts in the literary world. In 1907, he met Tekkan Yosano and was invited to become a member of the Myōjō literary circle, to which he contributed translations and original works. In 1908 he was one of the founding members of the Pan-no-kai (パンの会 Gathering of Pan?) literary circle, through which he became acquainted with Kafū Nagai, Rokuzan Ogiwara, Kaoru Osanai, Kōtarō Takamura, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Bin Ueda and other noted figures in the Japanese literary and artistic world. In 1909, he assisted Takuboku Ishikawa in the production of the literary magazine Subaru.
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