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**Ono Tozaburo** (1903 - 1996) was an [anarchist](Anarchism "wikilink"),
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[poet](Poetry "wikilink") and school principal.
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## Life
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Ono was born in Osaka in 1903 as it was rapidly industrialising and the
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emergence of the young working class was accompanied by unrest and the
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spreading of radical ideas. Born into a wealthy family of merchants, he
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attended Tenojji Junior High School. He moved to Tokyo in 1921 and
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attended the Culture Department of Toyo University. However, like many
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other Japanese anarchist poets of the time, he dropped out after 8
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months. He was an admirer of the fiery anarchist [Ōsugi
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Sakae](Ōsugi_Sakae "wikilink"), and began contributing Aka to Kuro (Red
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and Black), but was soon shut down by [police](police "wikilink").
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In 1926, he launched Dam-Dam (Trajectory), an anarcho-Dadaist
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publicatoin, but only one issue appeared. His first collection of poems
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was rejected by all the publishers he approached, and in the end he had
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to self-publish his Hanbun Hiraita Mado (A Half-Opened Window). In 1928
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he translated and had published [Reflections on
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Violence](Reflections_on_Violence "wikilink") by [Georges
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Sorel](Georges_Sorel "wikilink"). He brought out a collection of
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American proletarian poetry, which he and others had translated, in
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1931.
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He returned to Osaka in 1933 and wrote poems about the industrial
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devastation he saw there and attempted to organise the workers' movement
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with the cultural anarchist movement as was soon arrested by police, but
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released due to lack of evidence. During [World War
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II](World_War_II "wikilink"), he published anti-war poems and in 1954
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opened the 'Osaka Literature School for Workers' and was its principal
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for 37 years, running courses on novels, poetry and children's
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literature, he also took a role in the anti-war movements of Japan.<ref>
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` `[`Tozaburo,`` ``Ono``
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``(1903-1996)`](https://libcom.org/history/tozaburo-ono-1903-1996)` at `[`libcom.org`](libcom.org "wikilink")
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` `</ref>
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## References
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