Kenji's opinion about the rural community has been fragmentarily reported by his friends and acquaintances. The rural problems in those days were mainly the impoverishment of the farming people and the conflicts between landowners and tenants. The most remarkable of Kenji's opinions is that the big financial combines of the city were accomplished with the money squeezed out of the farming people. He is said to have remarked that it was "his duty" to help the farming people get back their money. I think this remark of his has something to do with the expression, "my real duty" in the poem which was written on March 26th, 1927. A witness says that Kenji had an idea very similar to that of "the farm-land reform" practiced just after the war. Though his "real duty" was not carried out after all, his hope to make a social revolution including the dissolution of the landocracy must be implied in the expression.
