Hinatsu Konosuke
Hinatsu Kōnosuke ( Japanese 日 夏 耿 之 介 , aka: Higuchi Kunito ( 樋 口 國 登 ); born February 22, 1890 in Iida ; † June 13, 1971 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese poet, literary scholar and translator.
Hinatsu studied at Waseda University , where he worked as a professor of English literature. In 1915 he founded Shijin magazine . In 1917 he made his debut with the poetry collection Tenshin no shō ( 転 身 の 頌 ), which was influenced by the works of Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe . As a literary scholar, he received the Yomiuri Literature Prize in 1949 for Kaitei-zōho Meiji-Taishō-shishi . For Nihon gendaishi taikei (compendium of contemporary Japanese poetry ) he was awarded the Mainichi Culture Prize in 1951 .
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| SURNAME | Hinatsu, Konosuke |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 日 夏 耿 之 介 (Japanese); Higuchi Kunito (real name); 樋 口 國 登 (real name, Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese poet and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iida , Shimoina-gun (Nagano) , Nagano Prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1971 |
| Place of death | Tokyo |