Hino sojoBiblio.com
Hino, Ashihei / ?? ??, Translated By Shidzue Ishimoto, Foreword By William Henry ChamberlinBiblio.com
Wheat and Soldiers
1939037889New York: Farrar and Rinehart Inc. 1939. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 191 Pp. Beige Cloth Stamped In Blue. First Printing With Rinehart Logo. A Clean Lightly Used Book No Fraying To Covers No Names Or Marks Hinges Tight Spine And Endpapers Browned. Dj Nearly Complete Not Price Clipped Paper Aged Tiny Losses At Corners Faint Dampstaining Down Center Of Spine. Per Wikipedia Ashihei Hino Hino Ashihei Born Tamai Katsunori; 1907 -1960 Was A Japanese Writer Whose Works Included Depictions Of Military Life During World War Ii. He Was Born In Wakamatsu Now Wakamatsu Ward Kitakyushu And In 1937 He Received The Prestigious Akutagawa Prize For One Of His Novels Fun'nyotan Tales Of Excrement And Urine. At That Moment He Was A Soldier For The Japanese Army In China. He Then Got Promoted To The Information Corps And Published Numerous Works About The Daily Lives Of Japanese Soldiers. It Is For His War Novels That He Became Famous During And Forgotten After The War. His Book Mugi To Heitai Wheat And Soldiers Sold Over A Million Copies. In March 1931 Hino Established The Wakamatsu Port Stevedoring Union And Became Its General Secretary. In August Of That Year The Union Conducted A Cargo Handling Strike In Dokai Bay. In 1932 Following The January 28 Incident Foreign Laborers Conducted A Strike Prompting The Tamai Group To Dispatch Hino To Shanghai China. He Was Arrested Upon His Return To Japan And Became Distrustful Of The Japanese Communist Party Deciding To Turn Away From Leftist Politics And Back Toward Literature. Hino Became Known For His Vivid Portrayal Of Soldiers' Humanity During Battle. Mugi To Heitai "Wheat And Soldiers" His Account Of The Battle Of Xuzhou In May 1938 Which He Sent From The Battlefield Grew His Fame And Popularity. It Was Translated Into English And Praised By American Novelist Pearl S. Buck Who Had Grown Up In China As The Daughter Of Missionaries. In 1939 Hino Retired From Military Service And Returned To Japan But Continued To Be Known As A "Soldier/Writer." He Continued To Depict Military Life From All Fronts In World War Ii. These Years It Also Was Published Few Works In English That Is The Sentry Line "Hosho Sen" Mud And Soldiers "Mugi To Heitai" Flower And Soldiers "Hana To Heitai" Sea And Soldiers "Umi To Heitai" And Corn And Soldiers "Mugi To Heitai". After World War Ii Hino Came Under Aggressive Scrutiny For Having Been A "War Crimes Writer" And Was Banned From Holding Public Office From 1948 To 1950. His Work During This Time And After The Ban Was Lifted Included His Autobiographical Film Hana To Ryuu "Flowers And Dragons" Which Depicted The Severe Conditions Of Boyhood In Kyuushuu And Kakumei Zengo "Before And After The Revolution" Which Addressed His Own Moral Responsibility In The War. His Work Demonstrated His Literary Ability And He Regained Some Of His Public Stature. In 1960 After Hino's Death He Was Awarded The Japan Art Academy Prize For Kakumei Zengo And His Other Lifetime Achievements. Hino Committed Suicide At The Age Of 53. <br/> <br/> Farrar and Rinehart, Inc. hardcover
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