was a poet and playwright active during the Shà Âwa period in Japan. He also was a scriptwriter.
Born in Tokyo, Nagata was the brother of fellow writer Nagata Hideo. Influenced by his brother, and his brother's associates Kitahara Hakushà « and Yoshii Isamu, he also turned to poetry and literature as a career, He contributed to the literary journal Myà Âjà  and Subaru while still a student at Waseda University, but left university without graduating and went to Hokkaido to work as a laborer at coal mines and at railroad construction sites.
Nagata and Jun'ichirà  Tanizaki were close friends, even to the extent that Nagata used the pen name âÂÂMikihiko Jun'ichirà Ââ on some of his early works; however, after Tanizaki went to Kyoto in 1912, their relations deteriorated, and afterwards they had little contact.
Nagata is best known for his semi-factual work on the Great Kantà  earthquake, Daichi wa furu ("The Earth Shakes", 1923) and for numerous works on the Gion district of Kyoto. He later turned to scriptwriting and directed a theatrical troupe. In 1947, he staged a play called Shà Âwa Ichidai Onna ("A Woman of the Shà Âwa period"), which starred the notorious Sada Abe, who had been released from prison shortly before, in a one-act dramatization of her crime.
Nagata died of pneumonia in 1964, and his grave is at the Kanei-ji Cemetery in Ueno, Tokyo.