Hyakuzo Kurata

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Hyakuzo Kurata is a Japanese author known for The Priest and His Apprentice, The Beginning of Love and Awareness, and other works. He was born in 1891 during the Meiji period as the eldest son of a dry goods store owner. The tracks of his lifetime of 52 years can also be considered the footprints of a philosophy pursuing how life should be lived. The thing that healed the pains or his sickness, withdrawal from school, lost love, and other setbacks is said to be Ueno Pond, his spiritual love. At the time, the Kurata family's cottage was located on the edge of Ueno Pond. There, he wrote many of his works. Today, the Shobara Suburban Cultural Center contains the Hyakuzo Kurata Literary Museum, where about 400 of Kurata's works and items are displayed and where remain birth, literary, and tanka poem monuments, as well as his grave. Other sites to see include the Hyakuzo Plaza, which displays his bust in commemoration of the l00th year since his birth; and the "Literature Alley." By retracing the places noted in connection with Hyakuzo, the visitor can catch a glimpse of how this literary magnate lived.

As Hyakuzo said, "Youth is brief, a time to be treasured."