出典：国立国会図書館「近代日本人の肖像」 (https://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/)
梶井 基次郎
明治34年(1901) – 昭和7年(1932）
大阪生まれ。東大英文科中退。同人雑誌『青空』を創刊し、『檸檬』『城のある町にて』『ある心の風景』などを発表する。翌年、療養のため伊豆の湯ヶ島を訪れ、『冬の日』『冬の蠅』を創作。病状悪化により大阪へ帰郷し、昭和6年（1931）に雑誌『作品』へ『交尾』、翌年『中央公論』へ『のんきな患者』を発表する。文壇から評価され始めた矢先、31歳の若さで亡くなったが、『カインの末裔』『櫻の樹の下には』など、繊細な感受性と詩的な表現を抒情的に織り合わせ、独自の作風を築いた。
Motojirō Kajii
1901 – 1932
Born in Osaka, he dropped out of the English Literature Department at Tokyo Imperial University. He founded the literary magazine Aozora and published works such as Lemon, In the Town with a Castle, and A Certain Landscape of the Heart. The following year, he traveled to Yugashima in Izu for health reasons and created Winter Day and Winter Fly. As his condition worsened, he returned to Osaka and published Mating in the magazine Sakuhin in 1931 and The Carefree Patient in Chūō Kōron the following year. Just as he was beginning to gain recognition in literary circles, he died at the young age of 31. Works such as Descendants of Cain and Under the Cherry Tree reveal a unique literary style, combining delicate sensibility with poetic expression in a deeply lyrical manner.
