日本普羅作家同盟(（NALP）第三次擴大中央委員會發表「解散聲明」的一九三四年當年，一個殖民地青年來到了首都東京。他是出身彰化社頭一個貧窮農村的翁鬧。一九二九年從台中師範學校畢業後，懷抱著作家之志前往首都東京，卻潰倒東京街頭，不到三十五歲即去逝，也有一說是死在精神醫院裡。縱然辭世太早，獨特的作品風格和入選內地文學獎的事實都使翁鬧成為文壇上的傳奇人物。本文從翁鬧之所以成為一則傳說的經過，探究當時殖民地青年共通的心性，並自翁鬧的散文〈東京郊外浪人街──高圓寺界限〉追尋作家個人史的細節。藉著翁鬧的提示，在此得以重現三○年代存在於大潮流之外的左派群集，在鉤沉「高圓寺界限」其地其人具體的相貌之餘，也探索了這個抽象空間在當時所具有的意義。

　　In 1934, a young man of colonial Taiwan came to Tokyo, in the same year the 3rd enlarged Central Committee of Japan Proletarian Writers Union declared their disbanding. Ong Lao was born and bred in a poor farming village in Jong-hua, Taiwan. Aiming for the inland literary sphere, he came to the empire's capital, Tokyo, but was rumored to have died in a mental hospital in his early thirties. As a consequence of dying young, he leaves few works and is neglected not only in Japanese but also in Taiwanese literature studies. In spite of this scarcity, we still can piece together the days he spent in Tokyo from his essays like The Vagarant Town In The Suburb of Tokyo. In this essay, we see intellectual vagarants wandering around the suburb, Kôenji, and how much Ong was enthralled by the vagarious atmosphere. 　　Writers like Lyiitanji Yii and Suzuki Kiyoshi also testified that under the circumstances, most of the proletarian leaders were arrested by coercion in the 1930s, and many of the remainders were gathered in the neighborhood of Kôenji. There were also anarchists gathering around this place, according to Ong's essay mentioned above. Among them, waitresses, dancers, artists returned from Paris, bobbed hair youths, drunks, Chinese, Manchurians, and people from colonies like Taiwan also were rambling around the town, constituting a cosmopolitan atmosphere in this place.