The literary career of Uchida Hyakken (1889 1971) encompassed a
wide variety of styles and genres, including fiction, zuihitsu
(essays), war diaries, poetry, travelogues, and children s stories.
In discussing his oeuvre, critics have circumscribed Hyakken to a
private literary realm detached from the era in which he wrote.
Rachel DiNitto provides a critical corrective by locating in
Hyakken s simple yet powerful literary language a new way to
appreciate the various literary reactions to the modernization of
the early decades of the twentieth century and a means to open up a
literary space of protest, an alternate intellectual response to
the era of militarism.
This book takes up Hyakken s fiction and essays written during
Japan s prewar years to investigate the intersection of his
literature with the material and discursive surroundings of the
time: a consumer-oriented print culture; the popular entertainment
of film; the capitalist and cultural force of an emergent middle
class; a planned, yet sprawling metropolis; and the war machine of
an expanding Japanese empire. Emerging from this analysis is a
writer who relied on the quotidian language of the everyday and the
symbols of cultural modernism to counter the harsh realities of
modernization and imperialism and to express sentiments contrary to
the mainstream ideological rhetoric of the time.
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