Quo Fuit places 10 dated presences for Kōbō Abe across 7 places, from 1924 to 1971.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
, known by his pen name, was a Japanese writer, playwright and director.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Kōbō Abe is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Kōbō Abe was documented, and when
7 March 1924exact date
Kita, Tokyoattested“Abe was born on March 7, 1924 in Kita, Tokyo, Japan and grew up in Mukden (now Shenyang) in Manchuria.”source: Wikipedia: Kōbō Abe
7 March 1924exact date
Manchuriaattested“Abe was born on March 7, 1924 in Kita, Tokyo, Japan and grew up in Mukden (now Shenyang) in Manchuria.”source: Wikipedia: Kōbō Abe
7 March 1924exact date
Mukdenattested“Abe was born on March 7, 1924 in Kita, Tokyo, Japan and grew up in Mukden (now Shenyang) in Manchuria.”source: Wikipedia: Kōbō Abe
April 1940month
Seijo Gakuen Junior High School and High Schoolattested“Abe returned to Tokyo briefly in April 1940 to study at Seijo High School, but a lung condition forced his return to Mukden, where he read Jaspers, Heidegger, Dostoyevsky, and Edmund Husserl.”source: Wikipedia: Kōbō Abe
April 1940month
Tokyoattested“Abe returned to Tokyo briefly in April 1940 to study at Seijo High School, but a lung condition forced his return to Mukden, where he read Jaspers, Heidegger, Dostoyevsky, and Edmund Husserl.”source: Wikipedia: Kōbō Abe
April 1940month
Mukdenattested“Abe returned to Tokyo briefly in April 1940 to study at Seijo High School, but a lung condition forced his return to Mukden, where he read Jaspers, Heidegger, Dostoyevsky, and Edmund Husserl.”source: Wikipedia: Kōbō Abe
1943year
Tokyo Imperial Universityattested“Abe began to study medicine at Tokyo Imperial University in 1943, partially out of respect for his father, but also because "[t]hose students who specialized in medicine were exempted from becoming soldiers.”source: Wikipedia: Kōbō Abe
1943year
Tokyoattested“Abe began to study medicine at Tokyo Imperial University in 1943, partially out of respect for his father, but also because "[t]hose students who specialized in medicine were exempted from becoming soldiers.”source: Wikipedia: Kōbō Abe
1962year
Dunesattested“Though he did much work as an avant-garde novelist and playwright, it was not until the publication of The Woman in the Dunes in 1962 that Abe won widespread international acclaim.”source: Wikipedia: Kōbō Abe
1971year
Tokyoattested“In 1971, he founded the Abe Studio, an acting studio in Tokyo.”source: Wikipedia: Kōbō Abe
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Seijo Gakuen Junior High School and High School1 presence · 1940
Other places tied to Kōbō Abe in the record
In each of these, a source puts Kōbō Abe and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that Kōbō Abe was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
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October 1944month
Tokyomentioned“Specifically, Abe left the Tokyo University Medical School in October 1944, returning to his father's clinic in Mukden.”source: Wikipedia: Kōbō Abe
October 1944month
Mukdenmentioned“Specifically, Abe left the Tokyo University Medical School in October 1944, returning to his father's clinic in Mukden.”source: Wikipedia: Kōbō Abe
1960year
Japanmentioned“He later wrote a play about the protests, The Day the Stones Speak, which was staged several times in Japan and China in 1960 and 1961.”source: Wikipedia: Kōbō Abe
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