{"id":36364,"date":"2026-07-21T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/?p=36364"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:23:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:23:48","slug":"%e3%80%90%e6%9c%83%e6%b4%a5%e5%85%ab%e4%b8%80%e8%a8%98%e5%bf%b5%e5%8d%9a%e7%89%a9%e9%a4%a8%e3%80%91%e5%af%8c%e5%b2%a1%e3%82%b3%e3%83%ac%e3%82%af%e3%82%b7%e3%83%a7%e3%83%b3%e5%b1%95-%e8%bf%91-2-2-2-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/news-en\/2026\/07\/21\/36364\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3010Yanai Initiative\u3011Open Talk “Buraiha<\/i> Writers and Literary Monuments: On the Deaths of Sakaguchi Ango, Dazai Osamu, and Dan Kazuo\u201d (September 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open Talk: Buraiha<\/em> Writers and Literary Monuments: On the Deaths of Sakaguchi Ango, Dazai Osamu, and Dan Kazuo<\/h3>\n

The Yanai Initiative<\/a> welcomes TOKINOYA Yuri, a Teacher at Waseda University Senior High School, who will explore how memories and monuments associated with the buraiha<\/em> writers have evolved over time.<\/p>\n

Sakaguchi Ango, Dazai Osamu, and Dan Kazuo, who were strongly associated with the buraiha<\/em> (\u201cdecadent school\u201d) movement, shared a close friendship with each other. Ango and Dan wrote tributes to Dazai when Dazai committed suicide in 1948, and after Ango died in 1955, Dan would portray both Ango and Dazai in his novels. However, Dan\u2019s efforts to preserve his memories of his friends were not confined to his writing but extended into the living world as well, as he helped erect a monument dedicated to Ango in Niigata and participated in the unveiling ceremony for a Dazai monument in Aomori. After Dan died in 1976, he was honored with his own monument in Fukuoka. <\/p>\n

This open talk will use these monuments as a starting point to explore the significance of inscribing memories through text as well as into stone and the deep connection among the three buraiha<\/em> writers. <\/p>\n