Aizu Yaichi
Aizu Yaichi ( Japanese 会 津 八一 , Kyūjitai 會 津 八一 ; * August 1, 1881 , † November 21, 1956 ) was a Japanese literary historian and poet.
Life
Aizu was born and raised in Niigata . Even as a schoolboy he dealt with the Man'yōshū . After graduating from high school, he went to Tokyo.
Aizu graduated from Waseda University with a thesis on the English romantic John Keats . From 1913 he gave lectures on Keats' poetry and classical Greek poetry. Since the early 1920s, he has also dealt with the literary history of the Nara period . In 1920 he founded the Japanese Society of Greece ( Nihon Girischa Gakkai ) and in 1923 a society for the study of Nara art ( Nara Bijutsu Kenkyū Kai ).
After 1926 he taught Eastern art history at his alma mater.
In addition, Aizu emerged as the author of antique tanka poems. His most famous collection of poems appeared in 1924 under the title Nankyō shinshō , other works were u. a. Rokumeishū (1940) and Shūsho Dōjin no shō . For Aizu Yaichi zenkashū he received the Yomiuri Literature Prize in 1951 . In the same year he also became an honorary citizen of Niigata. His complete works have been published in nine volumes.
The pilgrim plate
Aizu wrote a set of eight characters to remind what the pilgrim should avoid (on the way of life):
Top row from left to right: 愚 (oroka) = foolish, 純 (nibui) = sluggish, 迀 (utoi) = clueless, 拙 (tsutanai) = clumsy,
Bottom row from left to right: 頑 (katakuna) = stubborn, 魯 (manuke) = stupid, 遅 (guzu) = grumpy, 訥 (yodomu) = faltering.
swell
- Kambayashi Tsunemichi: "The Aesthetics of Aizu Yaichi" in Michael F. Farra: "A history of modern Japanese aesthetics", University of Hawaii Press, 2001, ISBN 9780824823993 , pp. 133-148
- Edith Marcombe Shiffert, Yuki Sawa: "Anthology of modern Japanese poetry" , new edition Tuttle Publishing, 1972, ISBN 9780804806725 , p. 184
- Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 14 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 会 津 八一 . In: 世界 大 百科 事 典 第 ２ 版 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved July 18, 2012 (Japanese).
- ↑ Leaflet, Japanese, about the dishes.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aizu, Yaichi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 会 津 八一 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese literary historian and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niigata |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1956 |