Kuriyagawa Hakuson
Early life. Kuriyagawa Hakuson was born in Kyoto. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University, where he had studied under Koizumi Yakumo and Natsume Sōseki, and later became a professor at Kumamoto University and Kyoto Imperial University. He lectured on 19th century Western literature, and criticized traditional Japanese writing on naturalism and romanticism. His writings include: "Kindai bungaku jikko" ("Ten Aspects of Modern Literature", 1912), "Zoge no to o dete" ("Leave the Ivory Tower!", 1920) and "Kindai no ren-aikan" ("Modern Views on Love", 1922). In "Kindai no ren-aikan" Hakuson regarded "love marriage" ("renai kekkon") to be a  practice indicating an advanced nation and society, as opposed to the practice of arranged marriage, which was more commonly practiced in Japan at the time. He was killed by a tsunami, which swept away his cottage near the beach in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture, during the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923.