Itō Shizuo

Itō Shizuo ( Japanese 伊 東 静 雄 ; * December 10, 1906 in Nagasaki ; † March 12, 1953 ) was a Japanese poet.

Itō studied at the University of Kyoto and then lived as a teacher in Osaka. Impressed by the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin and Rainer Maria Rilke , he published the volume of poetry Wagahito ni ataeru aika in 1935 , with which he became known as a poet. Hagiwara Sakutarō praised the author as the "last poet of Japan". In addition to Miyoshi Tatsuji , Nakahara Chūya and Tachihara Michizō , he was the author of the literary magazine Shiki . Up until his untimely death he published three further volumes of poetry, and a collection of his poems appeared posthumously. His hometown Nagasaki awards the Itō Shizuo Prize in his honor .

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• John Scott Miller: Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater. Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-5810-7 , p. 42 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
• Edith Marcombe Shiffert, Yuuki Sawa: Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry. New edition Tuttle Publishing, 1989, ISBN 1462903665 , p. 139 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Itō is the family name, Shizuo the first name.