- Tracing Pathways 雲路
- Edited by 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
Chapter Information
Chapter Title
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
Authors
Hideto Tsuboi
Language
Japanese
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-260-7.04
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title
Tracing Pathways 雲路
Book Subtitle
Interdisciplinary Studies on Modern and Contemporary East Asia
Editors
Diego Cucinelli, Andrea Scibetta
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
156
Publication Year
2020
Copyright Information
© 2020 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-260-7
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-259-1
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-260-7
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919