Yamamoto Kenkichi

Yamamoto Kenkichi (1907-1988) was the pen-name of Ishibashi Teikichi, a Japanese writer and literary critic. As a critic he wrote notable studies of Shishōsetsu as well as of the poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro.^[1] He has been referred to as supportive of Shishōsetsu in an orthodox way.^[2]

References

1. Louis Fr?d?ric; Louis-Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. pp. 1042–. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
2. Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit (1996). Rituals of Self-revelation: Shishōsetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-cultural Phenomenon. Harvard Univ Asia Center. ISBN 978-0-674-77319-6.