- Tracing Pathways 雲路
- A cura di Diego Cucinelli, Andrea Scibetta
転向を語ること ─ 小林杜人とその周辺 / Converters Tell Their Stories: Kobayashi Morito and His Networks
- Hideto Tsuboi
- © 2020 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-260-7.04
After the 'March 15 incident' on Japanese Communist Party members in 1928, many activists converted in prison, and "conversion period" (tenkō jidai) appeared. The converted people (tenkōsha) then wrote notes in which they described the ideological and spiritual changes that occurred during their imprisonment. The change was prompted by the teachings of Buddhism, mainly Jōdo Shinshū, and the presence of chaplains (kyōkaishi) who mediated the teachings. The tenkōsha abandoned their faith in Marxism, returned to Japanese traditional familism, became devoted to the Emperor of Japan, and some started to practice agricultural fundamentalism. In this article, I will focus on a person named Kobayashi Morito (1902 -1984), who wrote about his own experience of conversion in Until He Left the Communist Party (1932) and also edited the notes of other conversion people and published them as Notes of a Converter (1933) and Thought and Life of the Converted（1935）, and will analyze the stories of conversion experiences of various tenkōsha, reexamining how they accepted conversion, and at the same time focus on the contradictions and conflicts that occurred there.
- Keywords:
- conversion; Marxism; agriculture-based national ideology; Kobayashi Morito,
International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan
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Titolo del capitolo
転向を語ること ─ 小林杜人とその周辺 / Converters Tell Their Stories: Kobayashi Morito and His Networks
Autori
Hideto Tsuboi
Lingua
Japanese
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-260-7.04
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Tracing Pathways 雲路
Sottotitolo del libro
Interdisciplinary Studies on Modern and Contemporary East Asia
Curatori
Diego Cucinelli, Andrea Scibetta
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
156
Anno di pubblicazione
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-260-7
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978-88-5518-259-1
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-260-7
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919