Riichi Yokomitsu wrote "The phenomenon of perception for Shinkankakuha is, to put it briefly, the direct, intuitive sensation of a subjectivity that peels away the naturalized exterior aspects and leaps into the thing itself.
"[1] After the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and the deadly fire it caused, new technologies such as subway, airplane, and radio were transforming Japan.
Shinkankakuha developed during this period as the start of Japan's modernist movement, influenced by European modernism.
[4] In 1924, the Japanese poet and translator Horiguchi Daigaku cited the work of the French novelist Paul Morand as a symbol of a new era.
His work inspired many Japanese authors to begin writing in a new style, and prompted Yokomitsu and others to found Bungei Jidai.