1982 年 31 巻 6 号 p. 12-21
Bosetsurin is based on the tenant-farmer dispute in Tsukigata Village in Hokkaido which reached its peak in October of 1927. Takaji began this work the following month and had it half finished by January of 1928. The latter part was probably begun in April and quickly written up. The Tsukigata dispute ended in victory for the tenant farmers. Why, then, does Bosetsurin end in their defeat and the hero's committing arson? Confirming the points made by Kudo Tadahiko in "Takiji on the Rise : To Bosetsurin"(Obunronmo 4,10,1971), this essay will probe the activities and psychological state of the Takiji who experienced the Otaru general elections in 1928 and the 3-15 incident, the Takiji who wrote Bosetsurin with Arishima Takeo's Kain no Matsuei in the back of his mind.