About Hayama Yoshiki

Yoshiki Hayama has successively participated in groups such as the Japan Proletarian Literature and Art Alliance, the Workers and Peasants Artists Alliance, the Labor and Peasants Literary Alliance, and the Proletarian Writers Club. Known as the pioneer of proletarian literature. Under the high pressure of Japanese militarism, the proletarian literary movement suffered serious setbacks. Hayama Yoshiki ended his creative life in Tokyo in early 1934 and lived in seclusion in Nagano and mountain villages in Gifu Prefecture. In 1943, he came to Northeast China with an immigration group to work as a farmer. After Japan's defeat, he died of illness on his way back to China in 1945.

Yoshiki Hayama wrote nearly a hundred novels, essays and reviews throughout his life. The early works were numerous in number and had strong ideological and combative qualities; the later works were less ideological and sentimental, and the number was significantly reduced.