Chino Shōshō

Chino Shōshō ( Japanese 茅 野 蕭 々 , real name: Chino Guitarō ( 茅 野 儀 太郎 ), born March 18, 1883 in Suwa ; † August 29, 1946 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese Germanist and translator.

Life

After attending secondary school, Chino studied German at the University of Tokyo from 1905 to 1908 . Until 1917 he was a German teacher at the Third Secondary School (today Kyōto University ), then he was a lecturer at Nihon Joshi Daigaku in Tokyo and from 1920 until his retirement in 1944 professor of German studies at Keiō University . His main focus was on German romanticism, the work of Goethe and modern poetry. Together with his wife, he worked with poems, tanka and literary reviews in the magazine Myōjō ( 明星 ), which was headed by Yosano Tekkan .

In addition to the first Japanese translation of Goethe's West-Eastern Divans (1937), Chino wrote translations a. a. von Goethe's Werther and Elective Affinities , from Rilke's poems (1927) and dramas by Strindberg , Storms Schimmelreiter and Schiller's Maria Stuart . He was also known as a poet. He was married to the Germanist and poet Chino Masako .

Fonts

• 1926 Faust monogatari (The Faust story)
• 1931 Doitsu romanshugi bungei (literature of German romanticism)
• 1936 Goethe Faust
• 1936 Doitsu roman shugi ( 獨 逸 浪漫主義 , German Romanticism)
• 1936 Goethe to tetsugaku ( ゲ ョ エ テ と 哲学 , Goethe and philosophy )

source

• Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , p. 328 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

• Works at Aozora

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 茅 野 蕭 々 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved July 19, 2012 (Japanese). 

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