TAKAHASHI KAZUMI

   Takahashi Kazumi was a novelist and scholar of Chinese literature from Osaka, married to Takahashi Takako. He graduated from Kyoto University in 1954, having already contributed to the literary journal Gendai Bungaku (Modern Literature), and earned his doctorate in Chinese literature there in 1959. He began teaching at Ritsumeikan University and published two renowned novels, Hi no utsuwa (Vessel of Sadness, 1962) and Jashumon (Heretical Faith, 1965). He taught at Meiji University and then Kyoto University until 1969, when he resigned to protest a campus dispute.