Yoshino Hiroshi

Yoshino Hiroshi ( Japanese 吉野 弘 ; born January 16, 1926 ; † January 15, 2014 in Fuji , Shizuoka Prefecture ) was a Japanese poet.

Yoshino attended Sakata Business School until 1942 and then worked for an oil company. He volunteered for army service, but was not called up until the end of World War II . After the war he was active in the trade union movement until he contracted tuberculosis in 1949 . During his illness he began to write poetry. In 1953 he became an employee of the magazine Kai . His first collection of poems Shōsoku ( 消息 ) appeared in 1957. It was followed by Maboroshi / hōhō ( 幻 ・ 方法 ; 1959) and Kanshō ryokō ( 感傷 旅行 ; 1971). For the latter he received the Yomiuri Literature Prize . In 1983 the anthology Hi o abite ( 陽 を 浴 び て ) was published.

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• j.lit - Biographies of modern Japanese authors TZ

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Yoshino is the family name, Hiroshi the first name.