Born in Tokyo, eldest son of a Finance Ministry official.
He entered Sapporo Agricultural College, lodging with Nitobe Inazō, and later became a Christian.
He went to America to study at university.
Back home, he became an English teacher in Sapporo.
He joined Mushanokōji Saneatsu, Shiga Naoya and others in the magazine Shirakaba.
He lost his wife and then his father, and resolved to live as a writer.
He published The Descendants of Cain, depicting farmers in Hokkaido.
He published the novel A Certain Woman.
He gave his Hokkaido farm free of charge to the tenant farmers who worked it.
He took his own life at Karuizawa in Nagano.
Nitobe InazōShiga NaoyaMushanokōji Saneatsu
Suzuki UmetarōYanagita KunioUemura ShōenYoshino SakuzōNagai KafūKawakami HajimeNoguchi UjōSuzuki Miekichi
People of the Taishō period ・ People by period
Based on facts found in textbooks and biographies. Uncertain points are marked as such.