The proletarian literature movement in Japan emerged from a trend in the latter half of the 1910s of literature about working conditions by authors who had experienced them, later called Taisho workers literature. Representative works from this period include Sukeo Miyajima's "Miners" (坑夫) and Karoku Miyachi's "Tomizō the Vagrant" (放浪者富蔵), as well as works dealing with military experiences which were also associated with the , the emergence of which allowed for the development of proletarian literature in Japan. In 1921, Ōmi Komaki and Hirofumi Kaneko founded the literary magazine "The Sowers" (種蒔く人), which aimed to reform both the current literary scene and society. "The Sowers" attracted attention for recording tragedies that occurred in the wake of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.