Born in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, and raised in Tokyo from early childhood.
He entered Tokyo Imperial University but later left.
With Mushanokōji Saneatsu and others he started the magazine Shirakaba.
Badly hurt when struck by a train, he recuperated at Kinosaki hot spring.
He published At Kinosaki and Reconciliation, about making peace with his father.
He published the story The Shop Boy's God, and came to be called "the god of the novel".
He began the long novel A Dark Night's Passing, completed only in 1937.
He received the Order of Culture.
He died.
Arishima TakeoMushanokōji Saneatsu
Kawakami HajimeNoguchi UjōSuzuki MiekichiSaitō MokichiTakehisa YumejiKitahara HakushūMushanokōji SaneatsuOsugi Sakae
People of the Taishō period ・ People by period
Based on facts found in textbooks and biographies. Uncertain points are marked as such.