Author · 1878–1923
有島武郎Arishima Takeo · ありしま たけお
Arishima Takeo was a Japanese novelist and essayist associated with the Shirakaba (White Birch) literary group. He studied at Sapporo Agricultural College and later in the United States, and for a time he was a committed Christian. His best-known works include the novel 或る女 (A Certain Woman) and the stories カインの末裔 and 生れ出づる悩み. Troubled by his inherited wealth, he gave his family's farm in Hokkaido to the tenant farmers who worked it.
Stories by Arishima Takeo
一房の葡萄 — Grapes from the Teacher's Window
This is a short, first-person story in which an adult looks back on one autumn of his boyhood in Yokohama. He went to a school in the Yamanote district, where the teachers were all Westerners and the neighbourhood was home mostly to…
小さき者へ — A Letter to My Little Ones
小さき者へ is a short work written as a letter. A father writes to his three small children, for them to read when they are grown, after their mother has died the previous year. Writing late at night while they sleep in the next room, he goes…