Kensaku Shimaki

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Shimaki Kensaku
Born	(1903-09-07)7 September 1903 Sapporo Hokkaidō, Japan
Died	17 August 1945(1945-08-17) (aged 41) Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Occupation	Writer

Kensaku Shimaki (島木 健作, Shimaki Kensaku, 7 September 1903 – 17 August 1945) was the pen-name of Asakura Kikuo (朝倉 菊雄), a Japanese author active during the Shōwa period in Japan. He had an interest in leftist ideology and was arrested in 1928 due to his ties to the Japanese Communist Party. Throughout his literary career, Shimaki wrote multiple novels and stories with a common theme being proletariat life. Some of his works were published by magazines and journals. He associated with Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari.