The Autobiography of Osugi Sakae

by sugi Sakae and Sakae Osugi

Book Overview

In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae (1885-1923): rebel, anarchist, and martyr. Flamboyant in life, dramatic in death, Osugi came to be seen as a romantic hero fighting the oppressiveness of family and society.

Osugi helped to create this public persona when he published his autobiography (Jijoden) in 1921-22. Now available in English for the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520077601
• ISBN13: 9780520077607
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"