Horiguchi Daigaku
Horiguchi Daigaku ( Japanese 堀 口 大学 ; born January 8, 1892 in Tokyo , † March 15, 1981 ) was a Japanese poet and translator.
Live and act
Horiguchi Daigaku began his career as an author of tanka verses and joined the Shinshisha (New Poetic Society) in 1909 . From 1910 he studied literature at Keio University and published poems in the university journal Mita Bungaku and in Subaru , the magazine of Shinshisha.
In 1911 he went to Mexico with his father, a diplomat, and lived there for the next fourteen years, in Belgium, Spain and Brazil. During this time he learned French and was particularly interested in the works of the Symbolists . In 1919 he published two volumes of poetry: Gekkō to Pierrot ( 月光 と ピ エ ロ , "Moonlight and Pierrot") and Pan no Fue ( パ ン の 笛 , "Panpipe").
After his return to Japan in 1925 he published a collection of poetry translations under the title Gekka no ichigun ( 月 下 の 一群 ) and founded the poetry magazines Pantheon and Orpheon . Later he was also highly valued as a translator of French poetry, such as the poems of Paul Verlaine , Guillaume Apollinaire , Jean Cocteau and Paul Morand's Ouvert la nuit .
In 1970 Horiguchi was named a person with special cultural merits , in 1979 he received the Order of Culture .
literature
- S. Noma (Ed.): Horiguchi Daigaku . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 561.
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| SURNAME | Horiguchi, Daigaku |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 堀 口 大學 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo (city) , Tokyo prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1981 |