- Hiraide Shū
Infobox Writer
name = Hiraide Shū
caption = Hiraide Shū
birthdate =3 April 1878
birthplace = Niigata,Japan
deathdate =17 March 1914
deathplace =
occupation = writer, lawyer
genre = novels, poetrynihongo|Hiraide Shū|平出修|Hiraide Shū|extra=3 April 1878 -17 March 1914 was a novelist, poet, andlawyer in lateMeiji period Japan . As a lawyer, he was noted for his involvement in the defense of the accused inHigh Treason Incident .Biography
Born as the eighth son to a relatively prosperous farming family in rural
Niigata prefecture , Hiraide graduated from the "Meiji Horitsu Gakkō" (the predecessor to the legal school ofMeiji University ) in 1903. He opened his own legal office in the Jimbocho area ofKanda, Tokyo in 1904. This district was (and still is) noted for the large number of publishers and book dealers based in the area.Hiraide was one of the founding members of the
literary journal "Subaru".As a lawyer, Hiraide received widespread fame (or notoriety, depending on political viewpoint) for his defense of
anarchist authorSakae Osugi , the defendants in theHigh Treason Incident , and for his defense of feminist poetYosano Akiko over government criticism of her anti-war poetry.See also
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Japanese literature
*List of Japanese authors External links
* [http://www.aozora.gr.jp/index_pages/person80.html E-texts of works] at
Aozora Bunko (Japanese site)
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