Nakahara Chūya

Nakahara Chūya

Nakahara Chūya ( Japanese 中原 中 也 ; born April 29, 1907 in Yamaguchi Prefecture , † October 22, 1937 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese poet.

Life

Nakahara wrote his first poems as an eight-year-old, sent tankas to literary magazines as a primary school student and published a collection of poems ( Sugurono ) with a friend . In 1923 he started middle school in Kyoto, where he became acquainted with Dadaism through Takahashi Shinkichi .

In 1925 he came to Tokyo to study. Here he met Kawakami Tetsutarō and Ōoka Shōhei , with whom he founded the literary journal Hakuchigun . In the journal he published his own poems in quick succession, and works also appeared in literary magazines such as Shiki , Bungakukai and Rekitei . His works, which lay outside the mainstream of Japanese poetry of the time, received little attention apart from literary critics such as Kobayashi Hideo and Kawakami Tetsutaro.

After the death of his child, Nakahara suffered a nervous breakdown in 1936. He died the following year at the age of thirty before the publication of his second volume of poetry, Arishi Hi no Uta , on which he had worked to the last.

Web links

• Website about Nakahara Chūya

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