Kubo Sakae was a poet and playwright from Hokkaido. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in German literature. His most famous work is the critically acclaimed Marxist play Kazanbaichi (1937; tr. Land of Volcanic Ash, 1986), which won a theater prize. He also won a poetry prize named after Kitamura Tokoku for Sannin no bokusho no hanashi (The Story of the Three Lumberjacks).
See also MODERN THEATER.
Historical dictionary of modern Japanese literature and theater. J. Scott Miller. 2009.