Claim: Tatsuo Nagai editor for Bungeishunjū devoted his energies to painting and worked with Kobayashi Hideo.
Evidence: Due to this encouragement, Nagai devoted his energies to writing, submitting a stage play to the Imperial Garden Theater in 1923, and publishing Kuroi Gohan ("Black Rice") in Bungeishunjū, a monthly literary journal founded by Kikuchi Kan.