The proletarian literature movement in Japan emerged from a trend in the latter half of the 1910s of literature about working conditions by authors who had experienced them , later called Taisho workers literature . Representative works from this period include Sukeo Miyajima 's '' Miners '' ( 坑夫 ) and Karoku Miyachi 's '' Tomizō the Vagrant '' ( 放浪者富蔵 ) , as well as works dealing with military experiences which were also associated with the Taishō democracy , the emergence of which allowed for the development of proletarian literature in Japan . In 1921 , Ōmi Komaki and Hirofumi Kaneko founded the literary magazine '' The Sowers '' ( 種蒔く人 ) , which aimed to reform both the current literary scene and society . '' The Sowers '' attracted attention for recording tragedies that occurred in the wake of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
Proletarian literature