Rinsen Nakazawa’s Interest in Emily Brontë

Abstract

Rinsen Nakazawa (1878–1920) was a Japanese engineer who was also actively engaged in literary activities in the early twentieth century. Two of his short essays mention Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: ‘Hakaba Kankai’ and ‘Ai wa, Chikara wa Tsuchi yori’. Nakazawa also contributed an article about her to a Japanese women’s magazine named Fujingaho. In that article, he introduced readers to Emily’s tragic life and praised her novel and poetry. He was one of the first Japanese intellectuals who fully appreciated her works and described her in a published work as a great writer and poet.