Ishida Hakyō

Ishida Hakyō

Ishida Hakyō ( Japanese 石田 波 郷 , real name: Ishida Tetsuo ( 石田 哲 大 ); born March 18, 1913 in Habu, Onsen-gun (today: Nishihabu, Matsuyama ); † November 21, 1969 ) was a Japanese poet.

Ishida was a student of the haiku poet Mizuhara Shūōshi . He was a member of the group around the literary magazine Ashibi before founding his own magazine. During the Second World War he contracted a lung condition that affected his health for the rest of his life. In 1950 his main work, the collection of poems Sha-kumyō , appeared, which identified him as an important poet of his generation.

literature

• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 397 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• Edith Marcombe Shiffert, Yūki Sawa: Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry . 8th edition. Tuttle Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0-8048-0672-1 , pp. 188 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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