There are no noticeable scratches or stains, but please understand that this item has been personally managed. Takiji Kobayashi (December 1, 1903 [Note 1] - February 20, 1933) was a representative novelist of Japanese proletarian literature, a communist, a socialist, and a political activist. He was the secretary-general of the Japan Proletarian Writers' League and a member of the Japanese Communist Party.