Novelist. Influenced by Christian teachings, he leaned towards Heiminsha’s socialist activism and published anti-war poetry at the time of the Russo-Japanese War, but he gradually grew interested in Buddhism. In 1909 he started to work for the Miyako Shimbun-sha and published Koya no Gijin (Hero of Takano) in serialized form in the paper. In 1913 he started to work on the serialization of his unfinished masterpiece, Dai Bosatsu Toge, in the same paper. He is known to have remained true to himself by rejecting marriage and participation in the pro-military writers group, Nihon Bungaku Hokoku-kai, during the war.