Ikuta Choko
Ikuta Chōkō ( Japanese 生 田 長江 ; born April 21, 1882 in Hino, Tottori Prefecture ; † January 11, 1936 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese literary critic and translator.
With translations of works by Friedrich Nietzsche ( Also sprach Zarathustra ), Gabriele D'Annunzios ( Il Trionfo della morte ), Dante ( Divine Comedy ), Karl Marx , Gustave Flaubert and Homer ( Odyssey ), Ikuta established himself as an important Japanese translator of the early 20th century Century. As an advocate of the emerging women's movement , he led a literary circle for women ( Keishū Bungakkai ) together with the poet Yosano Akiko and the writers Baba Kochō and Morita Sōhei .
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- Chieko Irie Mulhern: "Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook" , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, ISBN 9780313254864 , p. 133
- Yoshimi Takeuchi, Richard Calichman (Eds.): "What Is Modernity ?: Writings Of Takeuchi Yoshimi" , Columbia University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780231133272 , p. 169
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| SURNAME | Ikuta, Choko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 生 田長江 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese literary critic and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hino |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1936 |
| Place of death | Tokyo |