Shimamura Hōgetsu

Shimamura Hōgetsu

Shimamura Hōgetsu ( Japanese 島村 抱 月 ; * February 28, 1871 ( traditionally : Meiji 4/1/10) in Kuza, Iwami Province (today: Kanagichō -Kuza, Hamada , Shimane Prefecture ; † November 5, 1918 ) was a Japanese writer, literary critic and scholar. He is considered a pioneer of Shingeki .

Born Sasayama Takitarō ( 佐 々 山 滝 太郎 ) he went to Tokyo to study, where he stayed with the Shimamura family, who then adopted him. In 1894 he completed his studies at the Tokyo Technical School (today Waseda University ), where he later also taught. In the early 1900s, the university sent him to study at Cambridge University . As early as the 1890s he published the book Shin bijigaku (New Rhetoric) and published essays on the relationship between spoken and written language. As a leading member of the theater group at Waseda University Bungei Kyōkai , he became an important promoter of the modernization of theater in Japan with his productions of Henrik Ibsen’s Nora and Hermann Sudermann’s Heimat . In addition, he was a vehement advocate for equal rights for women and set important accents in the Japanese discourse on women's rights.

source

• Massimiliano Tomasi: The Rise of a New Poetic Form: The Role of Shimamura Hōgetsu in the Creation of Modern Japanese Poetry . In: Japan Review . No. 19 , 2007, pp. 107-143 ( PDF ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 島村 抱 月 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved September 9, 2013 (Japanese). 

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