Akashi Kaijin
Akashi Kaijin ( Japanese 明石 海 人 ; * July 5, 1901 , † June 9, 1939 ) was a Japanese poet.
Akashi became infected with leprosy in the early 1920s and was therefore subject to the forced quarantine in force in Japan at the time. He lived in the Nagashima Aisei-en sanatorium and emerged as a writer of haiku and waka . The forced quarantine situation - those affected were strictly isolated, they were forbidden to have children - spawned other poets such as Shimada Shakusō , Itō Tamotsu , Haruko Tsuda and Honami Nagata .
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- La Littérature Japonaise - Akashi Kajin ( Memento from January 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- The Oral History Project - That Spark of Soul Incarnate - Kaijin Akashi, Honami Nagata and Haruko Tsuda
- ILEP: Unique Collection of Writings by Japanese Persons Affected by Leprosy ( Memento from December 25, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 明石 海 人 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. January 20, 2009, Retrieved February 28, 2012 (Japanese, online version by Nihon Jinmei Daijiten . Kodansha).
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| SURNAME | Akashi, Kaijin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 明石 海 人 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1901 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1939 |