Noburu Katagami

Noburu Katagami (片上 伸, Katagami Noburu, February 20, 1884 – March 5, 1928) was a Japanese literary critic and a professor of Russian literature at Waseda University. He is also known as Tengen Katagami (片上天絃; later 片上天弦).

Biography

Katagami was born in Ehime, Japan, and graduated Waseda University in 1906, majoring English literature. He supported naturalism as an editor of a journal Waseda bungaku. He became a professor at Waseda University in 1910, but later he became interested in Russian literature and traveled to Russia to study Russian literature (1915-1918). In 1920, when Waseda University created a department of Russian literature, Katagami was appointed as the chief professor. Masuji Ibuse, who was one of his students at that time, was harassed sexually ( homosexually ) by Katagami, so had to leave the university before graduation (1921).

Katagami's literature theory became the basis of proletarian literature in Japan.