birth_date: 1901-02-17 00:00:00
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name: Motojirō Kajii
about: Motojirō Kajii (native name: 梶井基次郎) was an influential Japanese modernist whose short stories have shaped the work of countless writers through their poetics and striking imagery. Confrontations of death and meditations on the sublime in nature are among the recurring motifs in the body of work he left behind when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 31. His works have remained in the popular consciousness, inspiring the occasional fan to leave a lemon at an outlet of the bookstore chain Maruzen in homage to the iconic scene in “Lemon” (1925). Motojirō Kajii (native name: 梶井基次郎) was an influential Japanese modernist whose short stories have shaped the work of countless writers through their poetics and striking imagery. Confrontations of death and meditations on the sublime in nature are among the recurring motifs in the body of work he left behind when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 31. His works have remained in the popular consciousness, inspiring the occasional fan to leave a lemon at an outlet of the bookstore chain Maruzen in homage to the iconic scene in “Lemon” (1925). ...more
death_date: 1932-03-24 00:00:00