Shun Akiyama

Critic

1930-04-23 – 2013-10-02

Shun Akiyama was a Japanese literary critic and member of the Japan Art Academy. Born in Tokyo, he taught at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and later at Musashino University.

Quotes by Shun Akiyama

I think that man can live more simply than any other thing, and that this is one of his most striking characteristics. An idea like wanting to live the life of a stone could occur only to a man.
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Every time I think of living as a member of society, according to the organization of society, I become unpleasantly aware that from first to last man lives his life alone, by himself.
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