Ochiai Naobumi

Ochiai Naobumi ( Japanese 落 合 直 文 ; aka: Ayukai Morimitsu ( 鮎 貝 盛 光 ); * December 22, 1861 , † December 16, 1903 ) was a Japanese poet and literary scholar.

Ochiai Naobumi was adopted by the Ochiai family in 1878 while he was studying at their Shinto school. In 1881 he went to Tokyo and continued his education there at the University of Tokyo , where he also taught at times. As a lyricist, he strove to fill the traditional lyric forms ( waka ) with new sensitivity. Became known Kojo Shiragiku no Utah (1888), a transmission of a Chinese poem by Inoue Tetsujirō . He earned merit as a sponsor of young talents like Yosano Akiko , whose works he published in his publishing house. As a literary scholar he entered a. a. as co-author of the first major overall commentary on Ōkagami (with Konakamura Yoshizō ).

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• J. Thomas Rimer: Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: Abridged Edition , Columbia University Press, 2011, ISBN 9780231157230 , pp. 24-25
• Steven D. Carter: Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology , Stanford University Press, 1993, ISBN 9780804722124 , p. 447
• Bruno Lewin: Japanese Chrestomathy: from the Nara period to the Edo period , Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1965, p. 128

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Ochiai is the family name, Naobumi the first name.